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

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

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

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

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

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

Advances in techniques for analysing single cells and tissues have inspired an international effort to create comprehensive reference maps of all human cells - the fundamental units of life - as a basis for both understanding human health and diagnosing, monitoring and treating disease.

As the world becomes smaller and more uniform, it is important to remember that creativity in science can happen anywhere.

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

Horizon scanning has been used to identify opportunities and risks presented by 20 emerging issues in the field of biological engineering.