Start-up founders routinely talk about their failed companies. Academia could learn from them, says Mary Ryan.

From rodents to humans, tools that enable large-scale, single-cell neuronal recordings are exposing the inner workings of the ...

For much of human history, our species has treated Earth as an inexhaustible source of raw materials. In the past ...

Current measures to track emerging epidemics have a key limitation: they don’t work if the disease causes unusual or ...

Measles cases in the world’s children have been climbing since 2020, reversing a decades-long decline, according to a global ...

An account of how nineteenth-century studies aiming to find a biological basis for human races were dismantled by good ...

The nation plans to boost the number of doctoral candidates, but some early-career researchers warn of systemic challenges, ...

Women and people of colour are underrepresented in physics in many parts of the world, to the detriment of the field. How do academics’ beliefs about the role of ‘brilliance i ...

New evidence is helping researchers recover the lost histories of Africans buried on St Helena, nearly two centuries after ...

Pressures due to the continuing US–Iran conflict are mounting as early-career researchers endure frozen immigration status, employment limbo and families caught in the war.

Animal physiology is the scientific study of the life-supporting properties, functions and processes of animals or their parts. The discipline covers key homeostatic processes, such as the regulation ...