Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s, lowering their chances of getting ...

Minuscule particles with the ability to cross hard-to-penetrate barriers can be loaded with drug treatments to target intractable diseases.

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A programme that offers scans to smokers between the ages of 55 and 74 detects a large number of early-stage lung tumours.

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Scans of more than 3,500 people allow scientists to draw up a guide to the brain areas that work together from birth to 100 ...

‘Forever’ chemicals, so called because they do not break down in the environment, have reached even the ends of the Earth.

With government funding in decline, researchers should prioritize data collation and training the next generation of ...

As the country looks to commercial companies to drive innovation, it has a golden opportunity to support open science and ...

In these experiments, people who interacted with a sycophantic chatbot were more likely to say that they were in the right ...

The droppings contain DNA, he thought, and perhaps, even after rain washes them away, some DNA might remain. And if it does ...

People are buying helmets, face masks, vests and beds that emit long-wavelength light. Beneath the hype, there is some ...