A drug that outperforms placebo in helping people to lose weight is one of a growing number of next-generation obesity drugs being produced in China. At first, Chinese pharmaceutical companies rushed ...

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has not yet rescinded directives that led to the cancellation of more than 2,400 ...

Results align with other efforts to count the number of people killed amid the ongoing conflict.

If Stephen Quake gets his way, biologists in the future will spend a lot less time wielding pipettes. “Our goal,” he says, ...

Nature talks to legal and other specialists about the cases and what to watch out for when transporting lab materials.

Thimerosal is found in only a small fraction of US vaccine doses but has long been viewed with suspicion by the ...

Research across science and medicine will probably shrink at one of the world’s most elite universities amid a new political ...

In 2008, researchers reported that these rocks dated back 4.3 billion years 2, a claim that other scientists contested. Work ...

Paracetamol, also known as acetaminophen, is widely used to treat pain and fever. It is produced from molecules derived from ...

More scientific leaders need to speak out about anti-science agendas and threats to academic freedom across the world.