A competition to develop computational approaches to detect ‘novelty’ in published papers will help metascientists to study ...

Human–animal chimaeras are an exciting yet challenging area of research. Human cells are coaxed to grow in animal embryos, allowing researchers to study human tissue development. But the long-term ...

Researchers have reported growing hearts containing human cells in pig embryos for the first time. The embryos survived for ...

To celebrate the centenary of this event, several hundred researchers have descended on the island to take part in a ...

Andromeda, the nearest galaxy of a size similar to the Milky Way’s, has long been thought to be on course to collide and ...

Trafficking of scales for traditional medicine plays a relatively small part in the hunting of pangolins in Nigeria.

The researchers transferred some of the worm stacks to the laboratory. When they introduced fruit flies ( Drosophila ...

The team fed tobacco cutworm larvae ( Spodoptera litura) a rigid belt-like nanocarbon called [6]MCPP, topped up with boiled ...

Earth’s magnetic field seems to correlate with conditions that helped complex life to thrive — a discovery that could aid the search for life on distant exoplanets.

Your inhalation and exhalation pattern is not only unique to you, it can be a marker of your physical and mental state, study ...

An emergency-room doctor, critics of COVID-19 vaccines and an obstetrician who advises a supplement company are among the ...

Nature reporter joins hundreds of physicists on a remote island to celebrate Heisenberg’s enlightening trip there 100 years ...