Atomic clocks, which use the movement of electrons from one energy level to another to measure time, are the current standard for time-keeping. Nuclear clocks, which would be based on transitions ...

A method that renders skin temporarily see-through could offer researchers a non-invasive way to look inside the bodies of live mice.

The region of the human genome that harbours genes encoding amylase enzymes, which are crucial for starch digestion, shows extensive structural diversity. Amylase genes have been duplicated and ...

The human brain is usually considered to be beyond the reach of most immune cells. However, analysis of people who have brain tumours has revealed tumour-targeting T cells of the immune system in ...

Scientists have demonstrated all of the ingredients they need to make a nuclear clock. Plus, a study sheds light on how the immune systems of trans men are affected by hormone replacement therapy ...

Many nations have embraced burning wood pellets to produce electricity — under the assumption that it is carbon neutral. But research shows this approach can boost greenhouse-gas emissions and ...

In the hills of eastern Tennessee, a record-breaking machine called Frontier is providing scientists with unprecedented opportunities to study everything from atoms to galaxies.

All too often negative results fail to appear in scientific literature, but now funders, publishers and researchers are finding ways to change this.

Researchers are among those who feel uneasy about the unrestrained use of their intellectual property in training commercial large language models. Firms and regulators need to agree the rules of ...

The guitarist has spent a decade studying the science of bovine tuberculosis, which can be carried by badgers, and has identified a new method of spread.

Even ‘untouched’ natural landscapes bear witness to millennia of human influence, a lyrical book argues — with implications for how we seek to rewild them.