Researchers seek to overcome measurement issues arising from field's youth, while some criticism has turned into harassment ...

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Attaching amino acids to a hydrophobic organic molecule allows them to self-assemble into rare, knotted structures with ...

Final 2026 budget figures, passed by Congress and signed into law, reject significant cuts that the White House had proposed ...

Sodium batteries may have just crossed a critical threshold, moving into high-voltage territory and opening a realistic path ...

The discovery of catalytic RNA transformed our understanding of life's beginnings. Clare Sansom explores how the RNA world ...

In November 2023, the UK became the first country in the world to authorise a Crispr gene-editing therapy.

Mason Wakley graduated from the University of Oxford, UK, in 2024, with a degree in chemistry. A year later, in the summer of 2025, he spent eight weeks working as a science writer intern for ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recommitted to a goal from the first Trump administration to end animal ...

When it was announced in 2023 that the world’s first Crispr-based gene-editing therapy had been approved in the UK there was ...

Scientists have uncovered three nitriles in lab-made interstellar ice that could serve as new targets for astronomers ...

Model predicts effect of mutations on sequences up to 1 million base pairs in length and is adept at tackling complex ...