Island life has given the world’s largest bats their gargantuan wingspans, which can reach nearly 2 metres 1. Flying foxes, a ...

Surgeons have developed two low-cost techniques to revive the hearts of people who wish to donate their organs after they die ...

Certain patterns of brain activity during awakening correlate with a lower likelihood of the bleary-eyed state called ‘sleep ...

The Langlands programme has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up ...

The researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to probe the chemical make-up of material around the star, and found the ...

The next generation of deep-brain stimulation automatically corrects the precise brain waves that create symptoms of ...

Long-awaited results suggest that mitochondrial donation can prevent babies from inheriting diseases caused by mutant ...

A bacterially produced molecule circulates in the bloodstream and increases the risk of cardiovascular disease by hijacking ...

Researchers assessed more than 1,000 results from fruit-fly immunity research published between 1959 and 2011. The majority ...

The appearance of thousands of formulaic biomedical studies has been linked to the rise of text-generating AI tools.

Plant diseases constitute a constant threat to global food security. A protein-engineering strategy, in which a ...

“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK ...