Families with three or more boys, for example, are more likely to have another boy than a girl as the next child.

The Langlands programme has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up ...

Emerging dangers are reshaping the landscape of nuclear deterrence and increasing the threat of mutual annihilation.

Certain patterns of brain activity during awakening correlate with a lower likelihood of the bleary-eyed state called ‘sleep ...

Surgeons have developed two low-cost techniques to revive the hearts of people who wish to donate their organs after they die ...

The next generation of deep-brain stimulation automatically corrects the precise brain waves that create symptoms of ...

A bacterially produced molecule circulates in the bloodstream and increases the risk of cardiovascular disease by hijacking ...

“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK ...

The researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to probe the chemical make-up of material around the star, and found the ...

Long-awaited results suggest that mitochondrial donation can prevent babies from inheriting diseases caused by mutant ...

The move would undo years of work, leaving advisory councils understaffed, and without the full expertise needed for reviews.

Cancer therapies called checkpoint inhibitor drugs, which ratchet up the immune system, work better when this bacterium is ...