In episode 3 of 'What's in a name' we look at what can be lost in translation when physicists try and name the unknown.

Accomplishing this will be hard at a time when some world powers are hampering research in the region. Scientists need to ...

The international community has a golden opportunity to start reining in the escalating, mostly ignored global burden of chronic kidney disease.

Five people have been able to perceive a colour never before seen by human eyes, after researchers used lasers and tracking ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has found large amounts of a carbonate mineral on Mars 1. The discovery helps to solve the mystery of how the now-dry planet once had a thick atmosphere. Billions of years ...

Half a century of caddisfly casings (Trichoptera) with microplastic from natural history collections Tiny particles of plastic are everywhere today, but a discovery in a museum collection proves ...

Research-integrity analysts are warning that ‘journal snatchers’ — companies that acquire scholarly journals from reputable publishers — are turning legitimate titles into predatory, low ...

Researchers who spoke to Nature say they don’t have the money or staff to do fieldwork or process samples. The US National Institutes of Health (NIH), a massive biomedical-research funder that ...

Bold claims of ‘biosignature’ molecules trigger an outpouring of scepticism.

All new research grants have been frozen at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) — an action apparently ordered by the ...

The United States spent roughly US$12 billion on global health in 2024. Without that yearly spending, roughly 25 million ...