The microbiome comprises all of the genetic material within a microbiota (the entire collection of microorganisms in a specific niche, such as the human gut). This can also be referred to as the ...

A panel of US vaccine advisers voted to rescind a recommendation that all newborns should receive a hepatitis B vaccine at ...

Bioinformatics is a field of study that uses computation to extract knowledge from biological data. It includes the collection, storage, retrieval, manipulation and modelling of data for analysis, ...

A region unused to tropical cyclones has had three in a week. The world needs to ask why this happened, not look away.

Artificial intelligence tools are boosting researchers’ productivity, but some worry about the effect of a growing reliance ...

Nature - Communal Food Distribution and Division of Labour in African Hunting Dogs ...

Materials science is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the understanding and application of the properties of matter. Materials scientists study the connections between the underlying ...

Renewable energy is energy that comes from sources that are readily replenishable on short-timescales. Examples of these are solar radiation, wind, and biomass. Traditional fullerene-based electron ...

Two-dimensional materials are substances with a thickness of a few nanometres or less. Electrons in these materials are free to move in the two-dimensional plane, but their restricted motion in the ...

The mathematical reasoning model performed as well as humans at prestigious international mathematics competitions.

Broadly speaking, international research collaborations continue to rise globally, and Adams says that’s a good thing: the ...

Both papers found that chatbots influence voter opinions not by using emotional appeals or storytelling, but by flooding the ...