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Clever, cat-sized rodents are learning to clear land mines with the help of Bahati Abuu.

A study of hospital emergency departments suggests that women have more limited access to painkillers and medical care.

Do fewer things, work at a natural pace and obsess over quality, says computer scientist Cal Newport, in his latest time-management book.

Melting roads and buckling rails are disrupting travel, with the most vulnerable populations affected the worst. A concerted approach is needed to keep people moving as the world gets hotter.

The fast-growing discipline needs more scientists from under-represented groups. A raft of initiatives is rising to the challenge.

Intense blazes burning in the United States and Canada are creating their own thunderstorms, which can spark more fires.

Injections of the drug lenacapavir protected sexually active women and girls in Africa from the virus.

Long-theorized ‘ball lightning’ black holes formed from light would require much too much energy.

Loosely packaged DNA might make these nerve cells better able to encode memories.

Mission improbable.

A working group’s recommendation, meant to help to advance the careers of postdoctoral researchers, could discourage people from staying in academia, some researchers say.

The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.

The World Health Organization has updated its list of most dangerous viruses and bacteria.

Biochemist who helped to draw up guidelines for recombinant-DNA technology and championed women in science.

Regions of chromosomal DNA called centromeres are crucial to dividing cells. Centromere sequences from a human genome have been fully characterized and compared with those from other humans and non-human primates, revealing dynamic and rapid patterns of mutational change that will improve understanding of centromere evolution and function.

A 510-million-year-old creature that looked like the famously smelly fruit suggests that the earliest molluscs were covered in hollow spines.

US and Chinese firms dominate the list of companies that are producing the most research and patents in artificial intelligence.

Molecular biologist Rana Dajani works to support the careers and education of women and minority groups in the Arab world and beyond.

A player wins by racking up more citations than the competition, even if that means engaging in a little light plagiarism.