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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Analysis of almost three million children captures when ‘mathematical gender gap’ first emerges and could help focus efforts ...

Researchers have reported growing hearts containing human cells in pig embryos for the first time. The embryos survived for ...