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Genetic analyses back up what Swahili oral tradition has long held about ancestry of people from eastern Africa — that their ancestors are from Africa and abroad.

In the spring of 2022, a paediatric gastroenterologist treating children in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow issued an alert to Public Health Scotland (PHS), warning of an unusual outbreak of hepatitis cases in her clinic.

A new article redraws the scientific debate over the origin and properties of our first interstellar visitor

Nature's 2020 endorsement of Joe Biden changed no minds but did significantly undermine trust in science.

Tax incentives lie behind Australia’s love affair with heavy-polluting vehicles, experts say

Detecting methane on a distant exoplanet paved the way for the hunt for organic chemistry in the cosmos.

Nature, last month (paywall): The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will soon require [based on new federal legislation] researchers and companies seeking approval for late-stage clinical trials to submit a plan for ensuring diversity among trial participants…. The diversity requirement arrives in the wake of a 2022 report from…

Scientists have isolated an enzyme from soil bacteria that can convert air into electricity, which they say could be developed into a renewable power source for small devices.

Lead researcher says destruction was similar to process of Antarctic ozone hole forming each spring ‘but at much warmer temperatures’

New twist in debate over whether bryozoans cropped up during Cambrian explosion or later

Hunter-gatherers took shelter from the ice age in Southwestern Europe, but were replaced on the Italian Peninsula according to two new studies, published in Nature and Nature Ecology Evolution today.