Of roughly 1,200 scientists who responded to a Nature poll, 46% said they have or had a side hustle during their PhD.

China has approved a brain implant for people with severe paralysis to help restore their hand movements. The brain–computer interface (BCI) is the first in the world to be available for wider use ...

The new five-year plan calls for more original scientific research to facilitate the country's bid for self-reliance.

The soaring cost and limited supply of computer memory is slowing some projects — and spurring creative approaches.

Some researchers are sounding the alarm over the official data sets that track crucial aspects of life in the United States, ...

Thick, toxic smoke and black, acid rain have blanketed Iran’s capital, Tehran, this week, after missiles damaged oil depots ...

When densely packed, long molecular chains, such as chromosomes, in living cells can crawl past their neighbours, computer ...

Skip the complicated regimens and expensive products seen on social media. The science of skin is deep but the ...

Collaboration between researchers and religious leaders led to a cut in the likelihood of early marriage by 80%.

Their makers claim they can detect dozens of cancer types — but some scientists say they could be missing many cancers or ...

A 56-year-old man with liver failure has become the first living person to be surgically connected to a genetically modified ...

To model bacterial life, Thornburg and his colleagues turned to one of its simplest examples: a bacterial cell with a ...