Treatments aim to bulk up failing hearts to restore their vigour – but can the field move on from past controversy?

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) — a major funder of basic research — has restricted the flow of new research grants ...

Innocent people are frequently convicted of crimes on the basis of a witness’s false memories. Emerging science poses a ...

Global risks are too great for markets alone to curb. Political considerations must come before economic ones.

The new open-source atlas, generated by an AI tool called ESMFold2, vastly increases the known protein universe.

A powerful molecular clock calibrated using data on gene activity from thousands of individuals can predicts biological ...

Researchers hope to build a facility with thousands of robots capable of performing experiments independently by 2040.

Artificial-intelligence tools are being touted as a means to conduct rapid reviews of scientific literature. At the ...

What happens when AI companies produce models that they say the public can’t have — and how should users and governments ...

Do algorithms used by social-media platforms amplify posts that are emotive, toxic, political or perceived as moralizing? And, if they do, does that affect how users see their social world? William ...

Public-health researcher James Baguma has studied the interactions between bats, which can carry the virus, and people in the ...