The project provides a baseline for tracking microbial-population shifts with land-use changes and global warming.

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Analysis of more than 1 million people shows that mental-health disorders fall into five clusters, each of them linked to a ...

The past few years have seen no shortage of international dialogues, white papers and recommendations from advisory groups on the development and use of artificial intelligence. Yet when it has come ...

Lynne Peeples is a science journalist in Seattle, Washington. Near the end of his first series of chess matches against IBM’s Deep Blue computer in 1996, the Russian grandmaster Garry Kasparov ...

An ambitious book challenges long-held assumptions on diet and nutrition and exposes gaps in public-health guidance.

After a year of progress, scientists say they are on the cusp of turning AI-designed antibodies into potential therapies. In ...

Looking out of the Fendouzhe submersible, more than nine kilometres below the ocean surface, Mengran Du knew she was seeing ...

When Susan Monarez was sworn in to lead the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the country’s premier public ...

Inside a massive factory in the industrial district of Curitiba, Brazil, millions of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are breeding in ...