Since the Industrial Revolution, normal body temperature in both men and women has decreased monotonically by 0.03°C per birth decade.

A longitudinal study of open access levels at 1,207 research institutions worldwide reveals high performing institutions in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

An analysis of 10,395 research publications about COVID-19 that mention at least one human gene reveals that many genes implicated in SARS-CoV-2 infection by genome-wide studies remain unstudied.

Careful design of the green spaces in cities will benefit both wild animals and humans.

The availability of almost all articles from toll access journals in the Sci-Hub repository will disrupt scholarly publishing towards more open models.

A compendium of critical genomic numbers for viruses through the lenses of different viral classification systems.

A set of paintings by Gustav Klimt highlights ongoing tensions in the relationships between art, science and society.

Ideas about causality from philosophy can help scientists to better understand how cancerous tumors grow and spread in the body.

The house sparrow, one of the most ubiquitous birds in the world, is now used extensively in studies across disciplines in the life sciences.

Lockdowns in the United States caused by the COVID-19 pandemic appear related to a decrease in the number of women publishing research papers, especially as first authors.