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Scientists have created a silicon chip that can write dozens of DNA sequences simultaneously using electricity and water-based enzymes, offering a cleaner alternative to conventional DNA manufacturing. The breakthrough c...

Tiny silica nanoparticles engineered to seek out prostate cancer caused tumor cells to self-destruct and supercharged the immune system in preclinical mouse studies. Combined with immunotherapy, the treatment produced co...

Alcohol interacts differently with amyloid-beta and tau pathologies in the brain's corticostriatal circuit.

The ketogenic diet is a highly feasible, safe, and potentially transformative intervention for serious mental illness.

A new quantum theory bridges two rival models of how impurities behave inside many-particle systems, resolving a problem that has challenged physicists for decades. The findings could reshape experiments on ultracold ato...

A modelling study suggests marine cloud brightening could shade the eastern Pacific and reduce a global temperature spike from El Niño, but there could be unexpected consequences

A new study introduces a low-cost, laser-induced graphene electrochemical sensor designed to detect dopamine levels in human tears.

Homer still matters, argues Adam Nicolson in The Mighty Dead, a great primer to Christopher Nolan's new adaptation of the Odyssey, says Kelsey Hayes

For the first time, researchers have filmed the elusive goblin shark alive in the deep ocean where it naturally lives. The remarkable sightings greatly expand the shark's known range and depth, showing that this 125-...

Feedback is delighted by a study of how many animals produce poop that echoes the look of the poop emoji - even the lugworm, which does it upside down

From AI with Hannah Fry to David Attenborough's early days, these are the five must-watch science documentaries of the year to date, says Bethan Ackerley

The first six months of 2026 have seen bright threads in sci- fi series including Fallout and Paradise. But for pure gold, advises TV columnist Bethan Ackerley, try Star City

A new study establishes a robust link between long-term air pollution exposure and Parkinsons disease risk.

A new study demonstrates that individual human cortical neurons possess the computational complexity of an entire deep artificial neural network.

A drug that softens the ovaries helped mice and rats conceive more easily at an older age, and produce more pups

Researchers have cracked the code behind bacteria's ability to naturally manufacture multiple versions of powerful anti-cancer drugs. The discovery could make it much easier to engineer new cancer treatments inspired...

Early in life, neural networks in the brain's memory center are highly connected, and they are only later refined into precise systems, a mouse study finds.

Seeking out the simplest, most elegant explanations has served scientists well for centuries, but cognitive scientist Marina Dubovas experiments are revealing better ways to uncover reality

Plasma pinches: From pursuits of nuclear fusion to an attractive point source of accelerated protons for proton radiography.

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft has captured the first close-up photo of one of Earth's "quasi-moons," Kamo'oalewa. However, the image and the timing of its release suggest that it may be harder for the ...

Pioneer of quantum mechanics Erwin Schrödinger's look at living organisms is one of the most influential popular-science books of the 20th century. So how does it hold up today, asks Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

Lambs have been born using an experimental form of IVF that coaxes immature eggs to become mature ones. This could boost the number of eggs available for fertilisation and improve IVF success rates