In an analysis of nearly 900 retracted medical research studies, the number of female authors is disproportionately low.

The host of the high-level meeting must not be swayed from its priorities, which are in line with the evidence from research.

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The rise in artificial-intelligence technologies is unprecedented, but some predict a stock-market crash that could have ...

With gaps in vaccine coverage, nowhere is safe from measles outbreaks. But the disease has hit the Americas hard this year.

The company was created to use AI for world- changing science — and achieved that with AlphaFold. But the advent of large ...

Science has become obsessed with publishing numbers. With this new satirical proposal, have we reached peak metric?

Can UK science really spawn a $1-trillion company? That’s not to downplay the successes. The United Kingdom is ranked fourth ...

Gates’ pivot has been celebrated by climate-change downplayers and fossil-fuel proponents in politics, including US President ...

Researchers have identified a neural biomarker of compulsive food cravings, and showed that it is suppressed by the ...