Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.

To build the experimental stations of the future, scientists at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility at DOE's ...

Although science often advances through tried-and-tested methods, sometimes scientists have to find creative ways to test ...

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

For all of the political chaos that American science endured in 2025, aspects of this country’s research enterprise made it ...

A human ear attached to a woman’s foot sounds like a stunt from a horror film, yet it is the centerpiece of a real, carefully planned medical rescue. In a world first, surgeons in China temporarily ...

LONDON & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Synthace, creators of the world’s first digital experiment platform for life science R&D, today announces the successful integration of their platform with OpenAI’s ...

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 ...

Scientists found a compound that appears to counter common mutations behind POLG-related diseases, rare conditions that harm mitochondrial DNA. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

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 ...

From beginning to end, 2025 was a year of devastation for scientists in the United States. January saw the abrupt suspension ...