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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Marine biology is the study of life in the oceans and brackish waters, which ranges from archaea and bacteria to marine mammals, and includes organisms such as corals that affect the shape of the ...

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

To celebrate the centenary of this event, several hundred researchers have descended on the island to take part in a ...

Andromeda, the nearest galaxy of a size similar to the Milky Way’s, has long been thought to be on course to collide and ...