The recognition and prestige of a Nobel prize for ground-breaking work comes with a gold medal and the equivalent of a ...

Results from a small trial suggest a modified virus can instruct the immune system to wipe out disease-causing cells.

For many cancer survivors, the triumph of remission is undercut by a debilitating side effect: hands and feet that feel as though they are constantly burning, prickling with needles or encased in ice.

Older female mice given an anti-obesity medication lived longer and in better health than did mice not taking one.

Images revealed the accelerated movement of a glacier–rock mass just days before it collapsed, triggering a deadly flash ...

Scientists are amassing evidence that unrepaired or poorly repaired DNA damage underlies many of the hallmarks of ageing. This has led to research into whether boosting DNA repair can keep people ...

Hundreds of millions of people have long-term conditions as a result of an infection. Researchers are working out how to help ...

The goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 ºC to avoid the most dangerous consequences of climate change is officially dead. According to a report 1 released today by the United Nations Environment ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope stems from scientific bricolage. Its 2.4-metre primary mirror was built for terrestrial ...

In a small clinical trial of the drug daraxonrasib (Rasonque), tumours shrank in more than 30% of participants with the most common form of lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer. Each participant ...