The six-year results from the Dark Energy Survey highlight unresolved tensions in standard cosmological theory.

It uses a system called simplified molecular-input line-entry system (SMILES). This translates chemical 3D structures into ...

About 55% of the human lifespan is heritable, meaning that more than half of the observed variation in longevity across a ...

Semiconductor chips that process light rather than electricity could boost processing speeds and reduce energy use.

Hackathons using AlphaGenome and other AI models are hunting down the genetic causes of devastating conditions that have ...

‘Exercise snacks’ and other forms of everyday movement can greatly reduce the risk of heart disease and death.

Bacteria can be turned into living factories that churn out complex molecules using reactions catalysed by light 1.

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

Posts on social-media platform X that are critical of scientific research can act as early warning signs of problematic ...

'Fragility' can be defined as an accelerating sensitivity to a harmful stressor: this response plots as a concave curve and mathematically culminates in more harm than benefit from random events.

The data were collected from people about to have surgery. They show that as anaesthesia takes hold, the interplay between ...

A study shows that social interactions in the nursery have a huge impact on babies’ microbiome development and may facilitate ...