The US administration should clear up the confusion over the future of a widely admired AIDS fund and push for Congress to reauthorize it.

An ambitious plan to stop the global threat of AIDS has been derailed. But many are hopeful that progress can be salvaged.

In turbulent economic times, the prime minister’s Liberal party has promised funding to attract research talent to Canada.

Global agreement on a pandemic preparedness plan came against all the odds. Now all parties must follow good intentions with concrete actions.

Mechanism involving neurons that stimulate fear, and ones that suppress it, could help to explain conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder.

Quick immune responses could be key to establishing herd immunity in future pandemics.

Acceptable image-editing practices are partly a matter of common sense. But researchers say journals and funders could help scientists by standardizing policies.

President Donald Trump and his administration have gutted science agencies, terminated research programmes and cancelled billions of dollars in grants to universities. What are the long-term impacts for the United States and the world?

Jemma Wadham analyses the ever-changing glaciers of the Arctic.

The risk of developing blood cancer increases with age. The finding that a molecule from gut bacteria plays a part points to new ways to intervene.

While researchers agree that adolescents are struggling with mental health, there is fierce debate about how much technology is to blame.

Firing tiny doses of laser light into people’s eyes allowed them to perceive a never-seen-before hue.

Physician Sue Sisley battles to study cannabis and psilocybin mushrooms for pain, addiction and PTSD.

Three books that take on the history of languages have something for everyone.

An origami-inspired ‘metamaterial’ has been engineered to have properties not found in natural materials — enabling it to undergo large, reversible deformations.

Immune cells boost stress-linked fear responses by communicating with brain cells. One way that psychedelics lessen such fear is by modulating this interaction.