Beside the bluebells and celandines on the woodland floor, Fortey searches for morels, “the most delicious of all fungi”.

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David Posner hopes that his teaching and outreach programmes could apply to other low- and middle-income countries.

Analysis of nearly 2,000 people living in remote villages in Honduras reveals who’s spreading gut microorganisms to whom.

A strain of avian influenza is showing signs of adaptation to human hosts, but there is no evidence that it can transmit from ...

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Coming less than a decade after its launch, the studies emerging from the global project are a major achievement. Funders ...

African researchers piloted a slew of innovative, low-cost programmes for addressing the troubling shortage of mental-health ...

A levitating frog, a necrophiliac duck, taxi drivers’ brains — the Ig Nobel prizes have shined a spotlight on offbeat work.