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 ...

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

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

Your inhalation and exhalation pattern is not only unique to you, it can be a marker of your physical and mental state, study ...

An emergency-room doctor, critics of COVID-19 vaccines and an obstetrician who advises a supplement company are among the ...

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

Trafficking of scales for traditional medicine plays a relatively small part in the hunting of pangolins in Nigeria.

A man with a severe speech disability is able to speak expressively and sing using a brain implant that translates his neural ...

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

This might sound like an obvious thing for a professional stargazer to say. But astrophysicist Federica Bianco was reacting ...

The researchers transferred some of the worm stacks to the laboratory. When they introduced fruit flies ( Drosophila ...