On March 10, 2020, 61 choir members rehearsed in a church hall in Skagit County, Wash. As they sang, a microscopic germ wafted through the air. Before the month’s end, 58 members were infected and ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new ...

After a year that feels like it has pushed many of us apart, our selection of the top scientific insights of 2024 are nearly all about how we come together and how we’re interconnected—across time, ...

AFTER THE second world war, Leo Szilard, a pioneering nuclear physicist who had worked on the Manhattan Project, decided to move into biology instead: life; not death. But there was a problem. As a ...

Biology — the science of life, living things and the processes that keep us all running — links up in essential ways with many other sciences, such as chemistry, physics and mathematics, which help us ...

Understand the fundamentals that drive life. Do basic research that leads to medical breakthroughs and improvements in our world. Study the underlying chemistry of organisms and ecosystems. Help ...

The U.S. life sciences industry entered 2026 with surprising momentum, following threats of tariffs and disrupted trade, NIH funding cuts, and a sluggish IPO market. Accounting for more than ...

The landscape for the life sciences industry is changing. The COVID-19 pandemic, Brexit and the increasingly volatile geopolitical situation relating to the war in Ukraine are influencing the ability ...

It’s hard to talk about individual well-being these days without talking about what’s going on in the world, whether that’s the mental health fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, political polarization, ...