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?

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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