The world’s largest public funder of biomedical research seems poised for a major overhaul in the next few years.

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Confidence that scientists will make decisions in the public interest nosedived at the onset of the pandemic but has now ...

Understanding how human neurons cope with the energy demands of a large, active brain could open up new avenues for treating ...

Scientists have detected resistance to artemisinin, a key malaria drug, for the first time among children in Africa with ...

With technical advances and enthusiasm from policymakers, advocates say the time for next-generation geothermal has come.

Noack and his engineers have therefore been turning to robotics and automation to speed up the process of growing ...

Through brain implants, neural interfaces and skin grafts, researchers are starting to restore sensation for paralysed or ...

Rotten tomatoes no more: growing sweeter tomatoes is possible by editing just two of the fruit’s genes. Deleting the genes ...

This is the basis for specialized, AI-powered science search engines such as Consensus and Elicit. Most companies do not ...

The Arecibo message contained an image of a man only. But what might seem a sexist choice deserves a more subtle ...