A bacterial molecule enhances chemotherapy. Its synthetic form could inspire new cancer drugs. An international group of researchers, led by teams at the MRC (LMS), Imperial College London, and the ...

While some stories are better when things are moving slow, sci-fi is often at its most fun when things are moving at warp speed. For instance, a fighter craft is probably faster than a capital ship in ...

EU-funded researchers are cultivating fungi on agricultural waste to create smarter and greener construction materials able to adapt and react to their environment, and even repair themselves ...

British grocery retailer Waitrose is one of the first five organisations in the world to pilot new science-based targets for nature, specifically relating to ocean conservation in seafood supply ...

A new sensor network using AWS technology will collect live data making the Museum gardens the most intensively studied urban nature site of its kind in the world Alongside thriving wildlife, the ...

The 25 sensors installed across the central London site will monitor conditions like temperature, humidity and sound.

The sky above us is a complex ecosystem, just like the land and sea. A new field of research is bringing a fresh understanding of the birds, bugs and other species that live there Dustin Partridge of ...

The term "alpha male" was coined in 1970 to describe wolves. But what does science think about the term now? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Neural networks are computing systems designed to mimic both the structure and function of the human brain. Caltech researchers have been developing a neural network made out of strands of DNA instead ...

Drawing down carbon from the air and stashing it in underground rock formations has been framed as an essential way to slow and reverse global warming. But new research published Wednesday in the ...