The molecules were deemed too unstable to make, but experiments show they can be ‘captured’ in certain reactions to yield ...

A vast colony of aspen clones could hold clues about how ancient organisms protect their genomes from harmful mutations.

Viruses known as bacteriophages are difficult to study, but they are beginning to give up their secrets. It is common ...

Immune cells rush to the brain and promote deep sleep after a heart attack, according to a new study 1 involving both mice ...

Clinical-trial participants saw their knee pain abate and could engage better with activities that got them up and going.

Study of 1950s sugar rationing in the United Kingdom also suggests risk to babies whose mums ate a high-sugar diet during ...

My work gathers inspiration from a variety of unconventional model organisms, and they have a key role in bio-inspired design ...

Nobel prizewinner Alain Aspect’s ‘crackpot’ studies of quantum entanglement have explored the tricks reality plays on us — ...

Another recent policy change is an extension to the Distinguished Young Scholars (DYS) programme, which gives outstanding ...

John Hopfield, one of this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics, is a true polymath. His career started with probing ...

The annual toxic smog that forms over swathes of India and Pakistan is preventable, but the nations’ scientists have too ...

Comparison of the hairless animals’ genomes with those of several other mammals shows low activity of certain sequences.