An X2 class solar flare hit Earth last night, with more flares and a coronal mass ejection likely on the way. Modern humans ...

When UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna first began studying how bacteria fight virus infections, she had no idea it ...

After decades of intense focus on genetics, the biomedical research community is undergoing a major shift, focusing on a new ...

Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...

Concerted, politicised assaults on scientific knowledge are intensifying. In the USA, the Trump administration is using the proposed Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education policy to ...

For almost 80 years, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been the nation's immune system, detecting threats early, coordinating rapid responses, and safeguarding population ...