In episode 3 of 'What's in a name' we look at what can be lost in translation when physicists try and name the unknown.

Accomplishing this will be hard at a time when some world powers are hampering research in the region. Scientists need to ...

The international community has a golden opportunity to start reining in the escalating, mostly ignored global burden of chronic kidney disease.

Five people have been able to perceive a colour never before seen by human eyes, after researchers used lasers and tracking ...

The United States spent roughly US$12 billion on global health in 2024. Without that yearly spending, roughly 25 million ...

Bold claims of ‘biosignature’ molecules trigger an outpouring of scepticism.

All new research grants have been frozen at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) — an action apparently ordered by the ...

Study finds dozens of journals that have hiked their fees and started churning out papers after being acquired by small, ...

Billions of years ago, Mars was warmer and wetter than today, perhaps because volcanoes belched enough carbon dioxide to ...

As the administration of President Donald Trump continues its campaign to reshape the US government with spending cuts and ...

Henry Sila Nzioki has developed a weed-killing fungus to improve food security. “I’m a plant pathologist at the Kenya ...

In 2012, the discovery of a way to ‘reprogram’ mature mouse and human cells into a primitive state from which they could develop into any of the body’s cell types won Shinya Yamanaka, a ...