Legendary country musician Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80 after “a brief battle with cancer”, her representatives ...

The plan to force some scientists to register with a professional body could protect people and the environment, but the ...

Researchers have created contracting muscle implants that can mimic some of the benefits of exercise, including improving muscle mass, strength and bone density while also slowing age-related muscle ...

Lynne Peeples is a science journalist in Seattle, Washington. Every year, millions of people start taking a drug with therapeutic effects that can’t be fully explained, for a condition that can’t be ...

Scientists and publishers are testing a new breed of software that promises impressive accuracy at spotting AI-written text.

Some male hormones could help nerve cells in the lungs to suppress asthma attacks. Asthma is a respiratory illness caused by ...

Science sleuth’s findings raise questions for researchers working to improve the reliability of commercial antibodies.

Injection of a person’s own mitochondria into the retina was safe but had only a temporary effect on restoring vision.

Health-care partnerships can provide other nations with cheap diagnostics, medicines and more — but global institutions ...

The brains of people with depression seem to be worse at producing new neurons than are those of people without the disorder.

Models of how the brain changes over time could help researchers to understand how diseases affect the organ later in life.

A personalized mRNA vaccine for melanoma reduced the risk of the cancer returning in a phase III clinical trial, the ...