More than 100 clinical trials put stem cells for regenerative medicine to the test. It’s a turning point for a field beset ...

Knitted fabrics obey extremely complicated physics, arising from both the properties of the constituent yarn and the fibres’ ...

Lizzie Collingham is a historian of food and bye-fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, UK. Her books include The Hungry Empire ...

People have profoundly altered the planet’s soundscape. It’s time to quieten down so that other species can thrive.

Gene-editing technologies for cancer and blood disorders are maturing a little more than a year after the first CRISPR drug ...

New and repurposed obesity drugs, daring space missions and climate-action policies are among the developments set to shape ...

Paper on hydroxychloroquine led by French researcher Didier Raoult is second-most-cited study ever to be withdrawn.

The system meant to ensure that international agreements are informed by a consensus of rigorous research is under severe ...

Anxiety, uncertainty and a renewed sense of purpose are surging in the community.

D models of Australopithecus afarensis suggest the muscular adaptations that made modern humans better runners.

In the study, which has taken two years and was posted on 26 November to the medRxiv preprint server 1, a team of more than ...

A naturally occurring compound involved in digestion lengthens lifespan in flies and makes old mice more youthful.