Imaging suggests why the ability to make inferences declines after an episode of acute stress, such as a job interview.

An 80-year-old challenge in geometry has been cracked by mathematicians working for the tech firm Open AI using a single prompt from an AI chatbot. The company has not revealed all the precise details ...

Public-health researcher James Baguma has studied the interactions between bats, which can carry the virus, and people in the ...

The size of the outbreak in its initial days is worrying researchers. The next few weeks will determine how large it grows, ...

On 17 May the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an ongoing Ebola outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. Centred on the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, the ...

James Webb Space Telescope reveals weather patterns from how planet WASP-94 A b filters the light of its parent star.

Since then, many more researchers have reported evidence for neurons changing how they respond to certain stimuli or ...

Thanks to some surprising advances, mathematicians are starting to realize that artificial intelligence could radically alter ...

Genetic sleuthing uncovers a rare case of cancer caused by a virus administered as part of a child’s treatment for a genetic ...

Clinical trials for treatments against the Bundibugyo virus are ‘in a strong position’ to be launched quickly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. Scientists are racing to trial ...

Artificial intelligence is poised to take on a more-active role in the laboratory: two new systems, described today in Nature ...

The outbreak is only the third caused by the rare Bundibugyo virus, for which there are no approved vaccines or therapeutics.