Bad experiences with supervisors are common among early-career researchers and one of the leading reasons they leave academia, a survey of more than 2,600 researchers has found 1. The study, which was ...

Organs from genetically modified pigs are being used in trials in China and the US.

Treatments aim to bulk up failing hearts to restore their vigour – but can the field move on from past controversy?

Anaesthetics are now part of every operating room, but physicians have been trying to reduce pain from surgery for centuries. Chemical traces on fifteenth-century surgical tools suggest that topical ...

Public-health researcher James Baguma has studied the interactions between bats, which can carry the virus, and people in the ...

The size of the outbreak in its initial days is worrying researchers. The next few weeks will determine how large it grows, ...

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) — a major funder of basic research — has restricted the flow of new research grants ...

What happens when AI companies produce models that they say the public can’t have — and how should users and governments ...

The new open-source atlas, generated by an AI tool called ESMFold2, vastly increases the known protein universe.

A powerful molecular clock calibrated using data on gene activity from thousands of individuals can predicts biological ...

Innocent people are frequently convicted of crimes on the basis of a witness’s false memories. Emerging science poses a ...