After a high-profile exit from government, Rick Bright heads a new Rockefeller-backed institute to combat dangerous pathogens

Expedition by motor boat offers pandemic protection to riverine groups long neglected by medical services

Bounty of new structures will forever change biology and medicine

Fibers are eclipsing standalone seismic sensors as a way to probe land, water, and ice

In the country that invented scientific forestry, climate change is upending centuries of tradition

Remote sensing tools provide the big picture often missing from on-the-ground studies

Peter Daszak predicted the coronavirus pandemic. Now, a fierce debate about its origin threatens his life’s work

$10 billion machine will unfold its giant, honeycomb mirror to the cosmos after December launch

Belt and Road’s massive dams and transport routes threaten rainforests, reefs, and rivers

Sleep’s benefits may extend far beyond the brain, with role for muscles, immune system, and gut

“Sleep deficiency is literally undermining the fabric of society, particularly in minority and low socioeconomic populations”

Invasive mollusk is quickly spreading through Brazil, choking out native species and clogging hydropower plants

Little science supports the faith that juries place in the canine nose, critics say

How astronomers, Indigenous groups, and space lawyers are responding to corporate “megaconstellations” in low-Earth orbit

Una oleada de denuncias aborda aspectos espinosos sobre la permisividad y las dinámicas de poder dentro de los laboratorios mexicanos

Wave of complaints brings up thorny issues of permissiveness and power in Mexican labs

Computer architecture that emulates the parallel processing of our neurons is fast and energy efficient

Pilot project hopes to test up to 200,000 babies for hundreds of childhood disease genes

Daniel Kastner and colleagues have identified more than a dozen genes causing autoinflammatory diseases and helped find treatments for the conditions

A warming climate has put forests choked with brush and young trees at high risk of severe blazes