The dwarf planet Makemake, which chills out in the deep freeze of the outer Solar System, might be home to an ice volcano 1.

The only continent where amber had not been found no longer has that distinction, thanks to a sediment core drilled just ...

Born in the United States to a Mexican mum and a UK–US dad, I grew up in Mexico but relocated back to the United States in 2012, aged 16 years old, to finish my education. After completing a ...

Analysis of nearly 2,000 people living in remote villages in Honduras reveals who’s spreading gut microorganisms to whom.

Since a schizophrenia drug, the first in decades with an innovative mechanism of action, gained US regulatory approval in ...

A strain of avian influenza is showing signs of adaptation to human hosts, but there is no evidence that it can transmit from ...

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Six years of observations show that play encourages group efforts and eases tension between adult chimpanzees.

African researchers piloted a slew of innovative, low-cost programmes for addressing the troubling shortage of mental-health ...

Coming less than a decade after its launch, the studies emerging from the global project are a major achievement. Funders ...

Microorganisms on a sample of asteroid are clearly terrestrial — despite strict protocols to avoid contamination.

As soil dries, plants limit water loss by closing tiny apertures called stomata in their leaves. A global analysis reveals ...