Forget bricks and mortar, scientists hoping to build houses on other worlds are turning to two unexpected building materials: ...

Living textiles’ made from the parasitic fungus Cordyceps militaris could be the next big thing in sustainable fashion.

We dive into the people and techniques behind the work that won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026.

Researchers have developed a computational framework that acts as a standardized benchmark for human embryo models.

Homochirality was a chemical mystery until Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai, winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026, found a ...

At this year’s AACR Annual Meeting, we spoke with numerous scientists about their research, the challenges that they have faced, and the innovative approaches evolving our understanding of cancer and ...

Age-related decline of chaperone-mediated autophagy alters the properties of senescent – or ‘zombie’ – cells, making them increasingly difficult to eliminate. It’s officially spooky season, so it’s ...

RNA interference (RNAi) screening is an approach commonly used in functional genomics that enables sequence-specific gene silencing through the delivery of synthetic small interfering RNAs (siRNA).

The Western blot may appear to be just another staple lab technique. However, there are some stories surrounding its invention that are definitely worth knowing. This might be news to some: scientists ...

The famed and outrageous science awards are back; but this year, miss the mark. This year’s Ig Nobel Prizes contain much of the familiar absurdity and genuinely thoughtful and engaging research ...