The Chinese Academy of Engineering has launched an investigation into prominent Chinese immunologist Xuetao Cao, the president of Nankai University in Tianji...

The number of people with food allergies has risen sharply in the last few decades, especially in Western nations. Around 8% of American children now have a ...

Decades of research have focused on how the brain acquires information, resulting in theories that suggest short-term memories are encoded in the brain as pa...

In 2015, Anthony Blas Yepez was sentenced to more than 22 years in prison after killing George Ortiz, his girlfriend’s step-grandfather. Now, Yepez’s lawyer,...

Finding treatments for Alzheimer’s disease is simultaneously one of the most pressing and difficult tasks in medicine today. Between 2000 and 2015, the numbe...

Decades of research have focused on how the brain acquires information, resulting in theories about how short-term memories are stored in the brain. What has...

The University of Gothenburg in Sweden is investigating several papers co-authored by biologist Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson after they were challenged on Pu...

In this week's social selection column, I look at three scientific papers that were extensively discussed on social media. First, is a study of biodiversity ...

Giant cells formed by the fusion of white blood cells may assist in the treatment of abnormal bone growth, according to a recent study. I spoke to Dr Jacques...

My interview with Kit Huckvale, a PhD student at Imperial's Global eHealth department, appeared on this month's Imperial podcast. Kit and colleagues have cre...

Diabetes patients often have to inject themselves with needles several times a day to check their blood glucose levels. But, a new temporary tattoo, which ha...

Last year, the US Supreme Court ruled that raw human DNA is not patentable, but the discovery of the CRISPR-Cas system, a new genome editing technique, has o...