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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Massive proteomics database links gene variant APOE 4 to chronic inflammation.