Briefing

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

Layoffs at the FDA, USDA and CDC could erode the U.S. food safety system. Experts aren’t so worried about milk or chicken today; they’re concerned about the future.

Move over belly flops and cannonballs. Manu jumps, pioneered by New Zealand’s Māori and Pasifika communities, reign supreme.

Adapting to climate change by replacing grass in cows’ feed with corn affected the nutritional value and quality of cheese, French researchers found.

A sauropod dinosaur fossil has been found with preserved stomach contents for the first time, providing insights into what they ate and how

A new understanding of how tumours exploit our nervous system is leading to new ways to treat cancer using familiar drugs like Botox and beta blockers

Our ability to study faint radio signals from when the first stars began to form is being threatened by SpaceX’s Starlink satellites, which seem to be unintentionally leaking radio signals that overpower astronomers’ telescopes

The company has unveiled new innovations in quantum hardware and software that researchers hope will make quantum computing both error-proof and useful before the end of the decade

He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is revealing the surprising reasons why he was given such a lavish send-off

Using CRISPR to correct the mutations behind polycystic kidney disease could counter some of the damage the condition causes