Funders launch projects with US$70-million to develop tools that make rapid syntheses of the world’s science. Education is ...

Soft cells’ — shapes with rounded corners and pointed tips that fit together on a plane — feature in onions, molluscs and ...

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Three scientists are honoured for developing a class of blockbuster weight-loss drugs. Is a Nobel prize on the way?

Scholars provide tactics for responding to threats and abuse, but emphasize that institutions must defend their researchers.

On average, the reviewers scored the AI-generated ideas as more original and exciting than those written by human ...

A mechanism for metabolic disease is traced to a defective cellular scaffolding that holds together the brain’s hunger cells.

The severe disease of the face has finally been recognized as a neglected tropical disease. A heightened focus could help to ...

Thelwall believes there’s more that AI could do in helping peer reviewers to evaluate research quality, but there is reason ...