Graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and science laboratory leaders are reeling after an announcement last week that ...

Delegates to a United Nations meeting on neurotechnology ethics have devised the first set of global guidelines on ...

The erosion of trust in public institutions is a pressing problem for governments. It hinders their ability to respond to ...

Automated programs gathering training data for artificial-intelligence tools are overwhelming academic websites.

A clinical trial using engineered immune cells to hunt cancer cells has reported impressive results for solid tumours, a type ...

Most proteins are left-handed, but scientists have found an ancient molecule that works in both mirror-image forms.

Photographer Petr Horálek observed both a lunar eclipse and a galaxy of stars from the the US National Science Foundation’s ...

Shuttle-based therapies are under active development for an array of brain conditions. “It’s now abundantly clear that we can ...

Thousands have signed an open letter against the US president’s latest order, anxious about political interference in science ...

US agency’s new policy could abruptly end studies of infectious diseases and cancer, leaving researchers scrambling for funds ...

The COVID-19 pandemic showed the value of changing direction in research. It should be incentivized, encouraged and ...

The body’s pathogen fighters can act as surveillance forces that ferry information from the gut and fat deposits to the brain ...