The Standard Contract requires providers (and thereby commercial sponsors and contract research organisations) to use a standard “methodology for setting prices payable by research sponsors to NHS ...

Learn more about eLife assessments Scientific progress depends on reliable and reproducible results. Progress can be accelerated when data are shared and re-analyzed to address new questions. Current ...

Malaysia faces considerable challenges with marine plastic debris, primarily due to mismanaged plastic waste from land-based sources such as packaging. This mismanagement leads to global economic ...

Introduction Mentalising, the capacity to understand behaviour via underlying mental states, is a key construct in psychopathology. While self-report instruments are widely used to assess mentalising, ...

Artificial intelligence has taken many forms over the years and is still evolving. Will machines soon surpass human knowledge and understanding?

Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic led to major disruptions in society across many spheres, including healthcare, the economy and social behaviours. While early predictions warned of an increased risk ...

Design education has become "less siloed" as students are increasingly producing politically-driven student work, says Alex Warnock-Smith.

This work, combining behavioural genetics and calcium imaging, provides evidence for a form of learning in Drosophila that derives solely from direct or (optogenetically induced) phantom experience of ...

Physicists are eyeing charged gravitinos—ultra-heavy, stable particles from supergravity theory—as possible Dark Matter candidates. Unlike axions or WIMPs, these particles carry electric charge but ...

Initiated in 2024, the Planetary Health Check is a comprehensive, science-based global initiative dedicated to measuring and maintaining Earth systems critical to life as we know it. These annual ...