How will UN scientists counter climate denial? IPCC chief Jim Skea reveals the strategy: a clear message on the human role in ...

By inserting that temperature-tolerant section into a human influenza virus, the team created two nearly identical strains: ...

With US President Donald Trump and other sceptics calling climate change a hoax, the UN's climate science body must tell the ...

Ecological medicine is a new approach to health science that draws on a very old idea: connecting with each other, with animals and plants, and with the natural world fosters health and well-being for ...

Researchers hope a study will reveal the mechanisms behind the change from ankle-driven walking in youth to more knee and hip ...

A new study shows that visual and tactile impressions that are related to our own body are prioritized for reaching conscious awareness. This helps us understand how we develop the feeling that the ...

The Wellcome Photography Prize awards photographers who show how science affects human health around the world.

A new study highlights five key eras of human brain development, and they don’t align with age quite as one might expect.

When weird fungal epidemics crop up in far-flung places, scientists work together to unravel how the microscopic murderers ...

Daniela Rus has spent her career breaking barriers—scientific, social, and material—in her quest to build machines that amplify rather than replace human capability. She made robotics her life’s work, ...

As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach is gaining attention: using living human brain cells as computational ...

With every step we take, our brains are already thinking about the next one. If a bump in the terrain or a minor misstep has ...