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Forests are often portrayed as collections of distinct species, each with a relatively fixed set of biological characteristics. But a new study suggests that this...

Hepatic insulin resistance, a metabolic defect that can emerge years before type 2 diabetes, has been linked to a previously underappreciated enzyme that may disrupt...

A new study in Nature is challenging a conclusion that has become increasingly common across science and technology: that disruptive events are becoming less frequent....

Superstorm Sandy did not end when the winds fell quiet. In New York City, floodwaters, damaged buildings, prolonged dampness and disrupted housing conditions continued to...

Parkinson’s disease treatment is entering an era in which the brain may no longer be viewed as a static target, but as a continuously changing...

Rice University researchers have shown that wrinkles only a few atoms wide can transform graphene from a nearly flat sheet of carbon into a landscape...

Louisiana Program Receives More Than $3 Million to Expand Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening A statewide cancer prevention program in Louisiana has received more than...

An international team of astronomers has uncovered a previously hidden chapter in the life cycle of stars by observing fragments of stellar material being torn...

A new MRI-based system could change how experimental stroke treatments are evaluated, allowing researchers to compare brain injury across thousands of laboratory animals with far...

Wildfires moving at extreme speed may be doing more than expanding the burned area across western North America: they may be pushing forests past a...

A photograph uploaded to iNaturalist may look like an ordinary snapshot of a strange-looking arachnid, but thousands of such images have helped scientists uncover a...

A new study suggests that the brain may not choose between goals in continuous, real-world behaviour as if it were selecting a single option from...

RNA medicines are moving rapidly from experimental therapies toward practical treatments, but one of the field’s biggest obstacles remains the same: getting fragile genetic cargo...

A debate over whether modern science and technology are becoming less disruptive has entered a new phase, with researchers arguing that the apparent decline may...

A small correction to a paper in Nature Aging has drawn renewed attention to a major question in biology: how does aging in the blood-forming...