A royal burial site linked to the fearsome Scythian equestrian culture contains evidence of ‘spectral riders’ described in ...

The geography of science is changing. As a result, a big push is needed to broaden the pool of scientists eligible to ...

Private-investor approaches for measuring the emissions associated with lending to governments risk creating perverse ...

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton pioneered computational methods that enabled the development of neural networks.

Governments should encourage researchers to stay and boost the economies of their home countries rather than working overseas ...

On 29 August, South Korea’s Constitutional Court unanimously found that the lack of quantitative greenhouse-gas reduction targets from 2031 to 2049 in the country’s Carbon Neutrality Framework Act is ...

A compelling book uncovers little-known aspects of the iconic chemist’s life, and the pioneering — if troubled — careers of the women who worked with her.

Proportional representation or winner takes all? Here’s how researchers compare the merits of contrasting voting methods.

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun "for the discovery of ...

The presidential election in the United States will have global ramifications. Do scientists around the world care who wins?

Improvements in public health and medicine have lengthened human survival, but science has yet to overcome ageing.

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to two geneticists who discovered microRNAs, a class of tiny RNA molecules that help to control how genes are expressed in multicellular ...