
Labs that experiment with animals start to lift veil of secrecy
But two years after Spanish centers signed a transparency agreement, 20% have yet to offer visits

But two years after Spanish centers signed a transparency agreement, 20% have yet to offer visits

A legal loophole allows greater scope in turning genetic samples into leads that help nail suspects

A study has found that soaring temperatures can increase the risk of gender-based homicide by 40%

A 1967 study by leading figure Fraser Brockington flagged up numerous shortcomings in the dictator’s public health system

Experts are calling for urgent action to tackle the problem, which causes more deaths than car accidents

Division over a mining project located near a unique marine nature reserve in Chile has taken its first political casualties

Uranium-thorium dating system finds that the drawings pre-date modern humans by 20,000 years

International team led by oncologist Paco Real discovers state of the pancreas that leads to tumors

A newly discovered cave conceals 3,300-year-old human remains with holes in their skulls

Nobel laureate Ramón y Cajal quashed the pseudoscientific theories fueling separatism in Catalonia

A Madrid-based doctor is fighting the common diseases that infect tigers and other endangered animals
Unusual winter rains lead to display involving more than 200 species of native plants

Existing data is either inconsistent or non-existent, say experts at interdisciplinary summit in Brussels

Troops were sent in when miners demanded an end to open-air pyrite roasting at Riotinto copper mines

Scene just one of many stunning sequences in new Spanish nature documentary ‘Cantábrico’

Dental records from Spanish cave suggest they chewed poplar bark, a source of salicylic acid

Scientists in Valencia are using a technique to cut and paste DNA in a bid to reclaim fruit’s flavor

Previously unseen material documents the extraordinary life of the physician Rafael Méndez

Nursing assistant Teresa Romero was the first case of transmission outside West Africa

Scientists are investigating why this well-known chasm has suddenly run out of oxygen

Nature magazine hails work done by Guillem Anglada-Escudé and Gabriela González in 2016

Police investigating claims money not used for rare disease treatments in US and Afghanistan

Who is behind the stray bullets hitting Madrid’s prestigious Institute for Mathematical Sciences?

Biochemist Héctor Peinado has received €500,000 from the US government to study neurofibromatosis-1

The organs of dozens of victims killed in 1936 on a hillside in Burgos by Franco's forces have been conserved

A survey of 22,000 Europeans revealed questionable use of prescription drugs

Many creole pig breeds, descendants from those that arrived in the New World in 1493, are in danger of extinction – and these scientists are analyzing their DNA to decide which to conserve