Palaeontologists used ancient molecules to identify a cranium found near Harbin in northeastern China as belonging to the ...

Computer algorithms have designed highly efficient synthetic enzymes from scratch, with minimal need for tedious hands-on ...

Experiments suggest moths use the Milky Way to orientate themselves — plus, evidence that humans expanded into new ecosystems ...

As US airports get busier, some are struggling to cope. Ageing technology and bad weather are often blamed for cancelled ...

Bogong moths migrate hundreds of kilometres and back each year using the southern night sky as their compass.

There might be a paradox in the biology of ageing. As humans grow older, their metabolisms tend to slow, they lose muscle ...

Gene therapy has proved to be a safe long-term treatment for haemophilia B. The benefits of a single dose persist for at ...

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Missile attacks have damaged laboratories and hampered scientists’ ability to do research in both Israel and Iran, as the ...

The decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government ...

A competition to develop computational approaches to detect ‘novelty’ in published papers will help metascientists to study ...

The Article demonstrating that the microbial metabolite ADP-heptose might be linked to a condition associated with ageing in humans represents a major advance in understanding how microorganisms might ...