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The mRNA platform offers the advantage of faster vaccine production, which could allow more time to decide on which flu strains to cover.

Managing diabetes with injections is challenging. Joining insulin to a skin-penetrating polymer was as effective as shots at regulating blood sugar.

Recent U.S. decisions about vaccines signal bigger changes to come that could threaten the foundation of the national childhood immunization schedule.

Polar marine ecologist Marianne Falardeau investigates how Arctic ecosystems are shifting under climate change.

In 2025, the Trump administration froze or ended about 5,300 NIH and NSF research grants totaling over $5 billion in unspent funds, a decision that reshaped many fields of science.

People who use search engines develop deeper knowledge and are more invested in what they learn than those relying on AI chatbots, a study reports.

Battles between the Trump administration and academic institutions are putting important biomedical advances in limbo.

A carefully crafted figure of a goose and a woman suggests that art reflecting spiritual beliefs entered a new phase among early villagers in the Middle East.

Video from the Haízaqv Nation Indigenous community shows a wolf hauling a crab trap ashore. Scientists are split on whether it counts as tool use.

Newly mated parasitic queen ants invade colonies and spray their victims with a chemical irritant that provokes the workers to kill their mother.