In Dielmo, on the banks of the Nema stream in Senegal, childhood was once marred by the relentless grip of malaria. Close to ...

Scientists worry that the H5N1 strain of avian influenza will become endemic in cattle, which would aid its spread in people.

Since the powerhouse artificial intelligence (AI) tool AlphaFold2 was released in 2021, scientists have used the protein-structure-prediction model to map one of our cells’ biggest machines, discover ...

Scientists have taken a major leap towards making an entirely new type of clock — one based on tiny shifts in energy in an ...

The technology is helping the West African nation to invest wisely in infrastructure, prioritising energy and food security, ...

Fossil energy sources need to be eliminated — and communities that will be adversely affected during the clean-energy transition supported, as we wrote in an Editorial last week. In this week’s issue, ...

Some professors and staff members have been on strike for as long as four weeks as they seek better conditions at their ...

Yet all she had done was to briefly treat them — many weeks earlier — with a drug that corrected the organization of proteins inside a type of stem cell. When technicians who were replicating her ...

China has successfully launched its historic Chang’e-6 mission .The 53-day odyssey will be the most complex and challenging ...

The first set of results from a pioneering cosmic-mapping project hints that the repulsive force known as dark energy has ...