After conventional wisdom seemed to make peanut allergies worse, a 15-year scientific journey led to “landmark” recommendations that now appear to be reducing their incidence.

Chimpanzees use a variation of the "scientific method" — discarding prior beliefs if convincing new evidence comes along to ...

Immunologist Zachary Rubin explains how the World Health Organization decides which strains of influenza end up in annual flu ...

Naomi Oreskes, a world-renowned earth scientist and historian from Harvard University, is the recipient of the 2025 Volvo Environment Prize. She is being honored for her influential work on the ...

Queensland’s new agency in charge of DNA testing has been accused of hiding serious ongoing problems, potentially breaching a recent direction from the state’s highest court to disclose any ...

The 54th International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques (HPLC 2025), was held from June 15–19, 2025, in Bruges, Belgium. This “Column Watch” installment ...

It was the best of interviews, it was the worst of interviews. At times I was born aloft on the wings of enlightenment, other times I feared I would drown in a sludge of foolishness. On the one hand ...

In early November 1927, the front pages of newspapers all over France featured photographs not of the usual politicians, ...

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and their collaborators have created one of the most comprehensive single cell maps of the developing human brain. The atlas captures nearly every cell type, ...

Institutes are questioning the value and methods used by ranking companies, which can focus more on research output than ...

In the 1980s, John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis detected quantum phenomena, which had long remained purely ...