The Square Kilometre Array will take longer to expand further into eight African nations than originally planned.

The studies are among a handful of pioneering trials using stem cells to treat diabetes, which affects close to half a ...

A lack of funding and academic freedom amid a political crackdown leave scientists feeling hopeless and pondering an exodus ...

The medication is the first in decades to have a different mode of action than do current drugs, achieving better symptom ...

For a little more than a century, chemists have believed that strong atomic links called covalent bonds are formed when atoms ...

Many UK universities are in a financial crisis. But the government is leaving them to flounder, treating higher education as ...

From alcoholism to Parkinson’s, scientists are studying the mechanisms behind the broad clinical potential of weight-loss ...

“A cell type is a group of cells that are similar to each other and distinct from other groups of cells,” offers ...

Pain from conditions such as endometriosis could be alleviated if the gut’s resident bacteria can be understood and tamed.

Neurons in certain brain areas integrate ‘what’ and ‘when’ information to discern hidden order in events in real time.

Children with Down’s syndrome have a 150-fold increased risk of developing leukaemia than those without the condition. Now, ...

That means it can be hard to recover bodies, or there is no one to report them dead, and so deceased people will be missed in ...