More than 40% of postdoctoral researchers leave academia, according to a study of some 45,500 researchers’ careers 1. Those who stayed and landed a coveted faculty position were more likely to have ...

Weight-loss medicines such as Ozempic might raise a person’s likelihood of developing conditions including arthritis.

Huntington’s is an incurable and fatal genetic condition that progressively affects movement, balance and cognition. It is ...

The president-elect quickly nominated confidantes with a focus on AI, but their recommendations for the rest of science ...

The incoming US president is expected to gut support for research on the environment and infectious diseases, but could buoy ...

The AI-designed proteins could form the basis of a new generation of therapies for snakebites — which kill an estimated ...

The technology firm OpenAI made headlines last month when its latest experimental chatbot model, o3, achieved a high score on ...

Epidemiological studies have linked dirty air to dementia and other brain disorders. Now researchers are trying to determine ...

Mice injected with a microRNA molecule lived longer and had fewer markers of ageing, but it’s not yet known if the treatment ...

Researchers, governments and others can all play a part in ensuring climate policies remain in the interest of all.

Most researchers whose papers are retracted owing to an honest mistake find the ordeal stressful, according to a survey of ...

Since then, Wobble Genomics, Kuo’s spin-off from the University of Edinburgh, UK, has grown from 2 to 16 employees, and in ...