Light-guided bots are steered through mazes like spacecraft tugged by gravity

The disease continues to spread in several African countries, but cases are down after an explosion in 2024

In Alaska’s Salmon River, leached metals reach levels that are toxic for aquatic life

Abandoning long-standing vaccine requirements for schoolchildren could prompt bigger outbreaks, researchers warn

Trump administration cuts to global health programs had put promise in doubt

Geoengineering scheme that would block the Bering Strait could kill the ocean circulation it’s meant to protect, researchers warn

Study in fruit flies sheds light on quirk of insect fertility

Trump administration vows to appeal ruling that it illegally cut $2.2 billion in research funding

Pioneering project uses “rapid autopsies” to find virus hideouts in infected people

In Mumbai, new tools provided up to 3 days notice of dangerous downpours

Disinformation campaign may have triggered “brutal” shutdown of mosquito lab

Two analyses of microbial DNA in tumor samples aim to put controversy-riddled field back on track

Chikungunya cases break records in France; West Nile virus appears near Rome

DNA connects modern Slavs to a wave of migration following the fall of the Roman Empire

Studies identify a solid inner core and buried remnants of giant impacts

Bizarre discovery of interspecies cloning “almost impossible to believe,” biologists say

In victory for animal rights activists, research on monkeys would end in 2030

Both chambers of Congress have now rejected Trump’s proposed 40% cut

Government sets requirements for new space that sound like nearby patent office campus

How exactly ancient toolmakers survived the harsh conditions remains a mystery

Advice follows Supreme Court ruling that threatened previously restored grants, but reprieve may be brief

Series of droughts chronicled in cave rocks likely pushed civilization to breaking point

New U.S.-Brazil study points to ways of countering election misinformation, political scientists say

If confirmed, vast cloud could test predictions about the Milky Way’s hidden architecture