A virus has stopped pancreatic cancer in its tracks in three people in a clinical trial in the US. Further evaluation is needed in larger trials, but the early results are encouraging, especially ...

The cost of CAR T-cell therapy means that the highly effective cancer treatment is unavailable in many parts of the world.

After an AI from OpenAI found a trick to solve an 80-year-old conjecture from Paul Erdős, mathematicians have borrowed the ...

NASA has revealed details of its plans to build a permanent base on the moon. Initially, this will see autonomous rovers and ...

Bacteria created using mirror images of natural biomolecules would pose a grave threat to life on Earth, some researchers warn, but a new study suggests they would struggle to survive in the wild ...

Airstrikes on Tehran earlier this year emitted a plume containing almost 30,000 tonnes of sulphur dioxide that reached Asian ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new ...

Residues on medical equipment reveal that physicians in China over 600 years ago used aconitine, a highly toxic plant ...

Among people of high socioeconomic status, love for nature corresponds with a bigger environmental footprint – and there's an ...

Five different groups of predatory dinosaurs independently evolved disproportionately small arms, and it seems they did so ...

Researchers have designed a quantum version of a pendulum clock. It could shed light on timekeeping in the quantum realm ...

Men who do not produce sperm can’t be helped by existing fertility treatments, but a start-up is now claiming it can grow ...