Automated bots and people lying about their conditions risk skewing the results of medical research, Oxford academics have warned

Executive orders freezing billions of dollars in science grants have disrupted more than 30 health projects in Britain

Does a newly discovered miniature believed to be of the poet’s first patron hint at a doomed love affair?

Israel’s offensive and aid curbs tip enclave of 2.1mn Palestinians into famine

From student to researcher, a career in science can come with a high price tag. This Perspective explores how persistent financial barriers limit who can succeed in science, revealing how wealth shape...

Researchers reveal 2.5 miles of neural wiring, nearly 100,000 nerve cells and 500 million synapses — in a speck of a mouse’s brain no bigger than a grain of sand

Giant whales rarely get cancer, defying medical expectations. New research is revealing their secrets, offering hope for human treatments

A device that simulates even the most intimidating of audiences can make presentations less of an ordeal, a Cambridge scientist explains

Trump and Musk have upended lifesaving work overnight and Britain is due to follow suit by shrinking its budget. Who profits?

Borne along on the tide of technology, it is far too easy to forget that some things really were better quality in the past

The MP had told the media he had been jailed for ‘pushing’ former partner in 2006, when the court records say he repeatedly kicked her on a night out

Pressure is mounting on the church to act against those who allegedly knew more than the archbishop about John Smyth abuse allegations decades earlier

They ask completely different questions, says the Vatican Observatory director, but the church’s persecution of Galileo was ‘wrong’

US president had resisted move for fears of escalating conflict with Russia

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Report released at Cop29 is reassuring on climate, but the president-elect has threatened to ‘terminate’ many of Biden’s environmental policies