There's something uniquely frustrating about the world of scientific discovery. We celebrate the names we know, the heroes ...

Modern cells are complex chemical entities with cytoskeletons, finely regulated internal and external molecules, and genetic ...

Using lunar ice to make rocket fuel could help future lunar settlements sustain themselves and provide a launch pad for astronauts to reach Mars.

A new study by researchers in Japan offers new insights into how protocells may have inherited and enriched genetic material before modern biology emerged. By exposing mixed phospholipid vesicles to ...

A team led by Prof. Richard GU Hongri, Assistant Professor in the Division of Integrative Systems and Design of the Academy of Interdisciplinary Studies at The Hong Kong University of Science and ...

In other developments, the EPA will reassess the safety of paraquat and New Jersey enacted a law banning PFAS in various ...

As soon as the anaesthetised rat stopped moving, the laboratory technician surgically removed its pancreas. There was no time to waste: the organ could only survive for about an hour outside the body.

Just weeks after leaving the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Prof Paul Monks says his five years as a chief scientific adviser have left him with the conviction that “science, in many ...

An image with three panels, all tinted green. In one panel, a woman wearing protective clothing, goggles, gloves, and hair covering holds a clipboard in one arm and reaches with the other toward a ...

A reactor at the world's largest nuclear power plant that restarted for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear ...

New research reveals that Central Asia’s rugged terrain was molded by the vanished Tethys Ocean, millions of years before the Himalayas even rose.

Only part of the resources that are extracted from the Earth are transformed into products; most end up as waste, says Buxing Han, a green chemist at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of ...