Europe’s torrid summer set a gruesome record, killing more than 50,000 people in the continent’s cities from excess heat, ...

A livestock virus that was first detected in Europe this summer can infect humans as well, confounding scientists’ ...

Immunotherapy with checkpoint inhibitors has revolutionized cancer therapy and enabled considerable therapeutic advances for ...

Lifestyle-related type 2 diabetes and associated obesity (diabesity) affect >2.5 billion people worldwide and impose nearly ...

Perceptual decision-making is well studied in mammals, but its operation in other vertebrates remains unclear. We show that ...

During interglaciations, the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS), which is the largest of the Pleistocene ice sheets, retreats to ...

Like a metronome, Earth has experienced ice ages on predictable “beats” driven by its planetary orbit around the Sun over the ...

Reforms could shift fiscal discipline and resilience investment into reinforcing forces rather than competing ones ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has spent the past decade compiling information on hundreds of U.S.-based scientists it believes tried to illegally help their country of origin, most often ...

Once regarded primarily as creatures of instinct and simple learning, birds are revealing cognitive abilities that rival and ...

Unexpectedly, the authors observed that mtDNA release is required for caspase-independent cell death. Cells deficient in ...

A sliver of iron thinner than a human hair was squeezed to deep-Earth pressures between the tips of diamond anvils, then ...