In recent years, the frequency of weather-related natural disasters—cyclones, torrential rains, floods—has increased as a consequence of global warming. These disasters cause billions of dollars in ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a ...

The offices of Google are pictured in London on February 28, 2026. JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images Google released agents-cli on April 21, 2026, and it has shipped 13 updates in the 71 days since — ...

Researchers at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre have developed a digital phenotype to assist with automatically identifying ...

Researchers have developed a way to program human cells to perform calculations and make autonomous decisions, similar to how ...

When standard leukaemia treatments failed, 13-year-old Alyssa Tapley was told she had only weeks left – but then she was ...

Here's what that shift to AI means for the recruitment process, and how you can ensure your application gets picked from the ...

Researchers led by developmental biologist Kathy Niakan at the University of Cambridge have used base editing in human embryos to learn more about human embryonic development. By deactivating a gene ...

Scientists discover karyoptosis, a new cell death mechanism causing nuclear disintegration in Alzheimer's and frontotemporal ...

Base editing, the process used to make the changes, only nicks one strand of DNA, avoiding the major DNA errors that made ...

We have identified the gene that, when activated, initiates the developmental programme that results in cells forming a human ...

Scientists have long known that the DNA code in genes is not the only way to pass genetic traits from parents to offspring. "Epigenetic" marks—chemical modifications to DNA that don't change the DNA ...