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China tests these therapies faster than the rest of the world but regulatory changes could slow them down.

Most of my students use AI, and I worry about its corrosive effects. We must not entrust tech companies with our long-term health, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Add my name Data centres are springing up all over the UK – using massive amounts of electricity and, in many cases, huge amounts of water. The UK is already facing water shortages, high energy…

Alaa lives in a tent pitched on the ruins of her house, which was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike that killed all three of her children. In one month, she will give birth again.

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Lebrec et al. present a FRET-based cGAS reporter and show that cGAS activation by genotoxic stress is rare and uncoupled from micronuclei. The study implicates R-loop structures and subtypes of chroma...

If reviewers can’t reliably tell the difference between top grant proposals, why should they pretend they can? A new wave of funders is turning to lotteries to break the tie.

The RNA-binding protein ZFP36L2 mediates stress-adaptive plasticity in intestinal regeneration and colorectal cancer metastasis.

Immune checkpoint receptors, such as TIGIT, act to restrain T cell responses, but their regulatory mechanisms are poorly understood. Zammit et al. discover that inhibitory TIGIT signaling requires bot...

Frontman of chart-topping band the Frames had huge success as the star of 2007 romantic drama Once

This cross-sectional study examines the incidence of and factors associated with early mortality among older adults undergoing emergency general surgery as a marker of nonbeneficial surgery.

If OpenAI loudly proclaims how dangerous AI is, investors will hear how powerful it is. And who benefits from that?

As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...

The union for 12 nurses laid off by Montefiore hospital say company broke contract they recently won through a strike

Ryan Rising creates programmes that help people who have been incarcerated to access academic opportunities.

Author summary We have created an agent-based model (ABM) that accounts for mechanical interactions between tumour cells and associated vasculature. The model simulates vessel occlusion and pruning du...

‘Persistent’ inequities found to exist in access to prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care, annual global review says Remarkable scientific progress against cancer has changed very little for millions of patients globally, who face devastating physical, emotional and financial consequences after diagnosis, a new World Health Organization report has warned. One person in five will develop cancer, according to WHO estimates, and the disease will touch 92% of people, either through their own diagnosis or that of a close family member. Continue reading...

As well as scrutiny from inside and outside our cars, bicycle-mounted busybodies are policing minor infractions

It feels as if we are being abandoned to our fate by those in power, with further extreme heat expected next week

As his new novel is published, the US author talks about nurturing the next generation of creatives, debating Sam Altman – and why he writes on a boat in San Francisco Bay

Amid chaos in US science and geopolitical turmoil, Europe wants to position itself as a research haven — but questions about funding and innovation remain.