More refined AI models, advancements in human gene editing and the continuing impact of the Trump Team on science — we run ...

Nuclear fusion. People on Mars. Artificial general intelligence. These are just some of the advances that could come by the ...

Journals that work hard to meet the needs of both authors and readers should be acknowledged publicly — encouraging others to ...

AI technologies need to be safe and transparent. There are few, if any, benefits from being outside efforts to achieve this.

Anecdotal stories suggesting that weight-loss drugs can help people shake long-standing addictions have been spreading fast ...

Much of the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s non-climate portfolio will be dispersed, the White House says.

The team select some of their favourite stories from the past 12 months.

Although development of a jab for the H5N1 strain of avian flu is well under way, other strains are receiving less attention ...

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The death toll and economic damage associated with flu highlight its role as one of the most harmful viruses in history.

Protein folding is the process by which proteins achieve their mature functional (native) tertiary structure, and often begins co-translationally. Protein folding requires chaperones and often ...

The US administration is banking on public-private partnerships and an expanded workforce to deliver progress, but critics ...