A lack of funding and academic freedom amid a political crackdown leave scientists feeling hopeless and pondering an exodus ...

The medication is the first in decades to have a different mode of action than do current drugs, achieving better symptom ...

The studies are among a handful of pioneering trials using stem cells to treat diabetes, which affects close to half a ...

For a little more than a century, chemists have believed that strong atomic links called covalent bonds are formed when atoms ...

An algorithm that detects streaks of light in telescope images could help to counter a growing threat to astronomy.

Wetlands ecologist Sigit Sasmito describes how growing up in rural Indonesia influenced his interest in peatlands and ...

Artificial-intelligence models are improving overall but are more likely to answer every question, leading to wrong answers.

From alcoholism to Parkinson’s, scientists are studying the mechanisms behind the broad clinical potential of weight-loss ...

Single-use plastic has always been a concern of Caitlin Broadbent, a sustainability technician at King’s College London. Each ...

This fish has legs — but they’re not just for walking. Scientists have found that the northern sea robin ( Prionotus carolinus) uses its limbs both to stroll the ocean bottom and to taste the sea ...

Pain from conditions such as endometriosis could be alleviated if the gut’s resident bacteria can be understood and tamed.

Some of the studies listed in a peer-reviewed paper as potentially problematic have been included in analyses that could ...