Telltale features visible in standard brain images can reveal how quickly a person is ageing, a study of more than 50,000 ...

Virtual chatbots that simulate conversations with famous actors or sci-fi characters can have real-world consequences.

Efforts by leaders of the US national academies to adjust to the new political reality have spurred member concerns about ...

The results of technology research and development must find their way into the published literature. New models of regulation could help.

Inflammation, thought to be a driver of age-related disease, does not worsen with age in some Indigenous communities.

The scale of funding cuts in the United States means that countless scientists will lose their jobs. It would be naive not to ...

Hours later, Andrew Nixon, the top spokesperson for the NIH’s parent agency, the US Department of Health and Human Services ...

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has not yet rescinded directives that led to the cancellation of more than 2,400 ...

If Stephen Quake gets his way, biologists in the future will spend a lot less time wielding pipettes. “Our goal,” he says, ...

Results align with other efforts to count the number of people killed amid the ongoing conflict.

A drug that outperforms placebo in helping people to lose weight is one of a growing number of next-generation obesity drugs being produced in China. At first, Chinese pharmaceutical companies rushed ...

Thimerosal is found in only a small fraction of US vaccine doses but has long been viewed with suspicion by the ...