It may sound like an oxymoron, but this massive nanoparticle made up of 7,000 sodium atoms is the largest to exhibit such ...

As much as 45 oceans’ worth of hydrogen may be in Earth’s core, scientists reported, suggesting most of Earth’s water was ...

MACE is a next-generation experiment designed to catch muonium transforming into its antimatter twin, a process that would ...

J ohn Moult remembers the time he was floored by an algorithm. Moult, one of the organizers of the Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction (CASP) competitions and a computational biologist ...

Scientists have uncovered incredible truths about the universe, yet some mysteries still refuse to show us an explanation.

Gene editing has made huge leaps in recent years, such as treating the congenital blood disorders sickle cell anemia and beta thalassemia, which can require lifelong blood transfusions. But scientists ...

In a proof-of-concept experiment, scientists demonstrated that you can create and fertilize human eggs in the lab using sperm, genes from skin cells, and the "shells" of existing egg cells. When you ...

A computer scientist at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln is spearheading three innovative projects to enhance the speed, ...

A few years ago, Caetano Reis e Sousa, an immunologist at The Francis Crick Institute, and his team were investigating how the immune system detects tissue damage. They were specifically exploring the ...

Saad Bhamla and his research group have been studying the behaviour of an ‘extraordinary zoo’ of organisms, hoping to find simple solutions to human problems.

Science funding cuts in the UK are expected to be a "devastasting blow" for physics research, affecting international ...