Older female mice given an anti-obesity medication lived longer and in better health than did mice not taking one.

Images revealed the accelerated movement of a glacier–rock mass just days before it collapsed, triggering a deadly flash ...

These were the words of Jason Arday when he resigned as professor of sociology of education at the University of Cambridge, ...

Scientists are amassing evidence that unrepaired or poorly repaired DNA damage underlies many of the hallmarks of ageing. This has led to research into whether boosting DNA repair can keep people ...

In a small clinical trial of the drug daraxonrasib (Rasonque), tumours shrank in more than 30% of participants with the most common form of lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer. Each participant ...

Researchers identify more than 1,200 personality-linked genetic variants, with effects largely independent of family background.

Hundreds of millions of people have long-term conditions as a result of an infection. Researchers are working out how to help ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope stems from scientific bricolage. Its 2.4-metre primary mirror was built for terrestrial ...

Academics worldwide are rethinking their assessment approaches — from developing exams that artificial-intelligence tools can ...

Top artificial-intelligence models failed to predict the biological consequences of rewriting a virus's entire DNA code.

A negative leap second could mean computer systems no longer run like clockwork. Credit: Florian Gaertner/Photothek/Getty.

The US$4.3-billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off atop a SpaceX rocket at 7:35 a.m. local time today from ...