The dwarf planet Makemake, which chills out in the deep freeze of the outer Solar System, might be home to an ice volcano 1.

The only continent where amber had not been found no longer has that distinction, thanks to a sediment core drilled just ...

David Posner hopes that his teaching and outreach programmes could apply to other low- and middle-income countries.

A strain of avian influenza is showing signs of adaptation to human hosts, but there is no evidence that it can transmit from ...

Analysis of nearly 2,000 people living in remote villages in Honduras reveals who’s spreading gut microorganisms to whom.

Coming less than a decade after its launch, the studies emerging from the global project are a major achievement. Funders ...

Six years of observations show that play encourages group efforts and eases tension between adult chimpanzees.

Since a schizophrenia drug, the first in decades with an innovative mechanism of action, gained US regulatory approval in ...

African researchers piloted a slew of innovative, low-cost programmes for addressing the troubling shortage of mental-health ...

Bites from insects infected with modified malaria parasites boosted immunity and stopped people from contracting the disease.

A levitating frog, a necrophiliac duck, taxi drivers’ brains — the Ig Nobel prizes have shined a spotlight on offbeat work.