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Automated vessel-tracking system aims to spy poachers and smugglers.

Pre-emptively treating kids for malaria is working, despite logistical challenges.

Large Hadron Collider’s failure to detect new particles beyond the Higgs has eroded the case for Japan’s proposed linear accelerator.

Physicists begin to embrace alternative explanations for the missing material.

A former pharmaceutical boss will help navigate the UK’s exit from the European Union.

As regulators consider a ban on neonicotinoids, debate rages over the harm they cause to bees.

The Makrani of Pakistan are descended from Africans forced into slavery.

Mello et al. analysed the effects of various p53 transactivation domain mutants in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and uncovered a crucial tumour-suppressive pathway in which p53 mediates inhibition of the transcriptional co-activator YAP.

This study identifies the environmental factors that are associated with changes in bacterial secondary metabolism across natural environments on a metagenome-wide scale.

Scientists are as sceptical as they come — but many still engage in personal rituals or use totems in the lab and field.

We need a new normal for women, says Shari L. Gallop

Scientists lured by big-prize competitions should weigh contests' aims and non-monetary benefits before entering.