Research ships rarely brave the Greenland Sea in winter. Early this year, scientists ventured into the ice-covered waters to ...

As US airports get busier, some are struggling to cope. Ageing technology and bad weather are often blamed for cancelled ...

There might be a paradox in the biology of ageing. As humans grow older, their metabolisms tend to slow, they lose muscle ...

Missile attacks have damaged laboratories and hampered scientists’ ability to do research in both Israel and Iran, as the ...

At last, nearly ten years on, England is taking action. From 1 August, England’s national regulator for higher education, the ...

Gene therapy has proved to be a safe long-term treatment for haemophilia B. The benefits of a single dose persist for at ...

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The Article demonstrating that the microbial metabolite ADP-heptose might be linked to a condition associated with ageing in humans represents a major advance in understanding how microorganisms might ...

The decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government ...

A competition to develop computational approaches to detect ‘novelty’ in published papers will help metascientists to study ...

Models suggest that human-caused global warming would have been detectable in the 19th century with today's know-how.

Human–animal chimaeras are an exciting yet challenging area of research. Human cells are coaxed to grow in animal embryos, allowing researchers to study human tissue development. But the long-term ...