A team of scientists has replicated one of Thomas Edison's early experiments from his quest to make the lightbulb, but with ...

MACE is a next-generation experiment designed to catch muonium transforming into its antimatter twin, a process that would ...

J ohn Moult remembers the time he was floored by an algorithm. Moult, one of the organizers of the Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction (CASP) competitions and a computational biologist ...

ISRO has launched IMEx‑2026, inviting Indian scientists to conduct experiments in microgravity. From biology to materials ...

Serendipitous observations have shaped science for centuries. What happens to such discoveries when the academic atmosphere leaves no room for detours?

In a proof-of-concept experiment, scientists demonstrated that you can create and fertilize human eggs in the lab using sperm, genes from skin cells, and the "shells" of existing egg cells. When you ...

A competition calling for research projects involving so-called AI scientists shows just how fast this technology is moving.

Saad Bhamla and his research group have been studying the behaviour of an ‘extraordinary zoo’ of organisms, hoping to find ...

Gene editing has made huge leaps in recent years, such as treating the congenital blood disorders sickle cell anemia and beta thalassemia, which can require lifelong blood transfusions. But scientists ...

The twentieth century brought incredible scientific breakthroughs. It also brought some of the strangest and darkest experiments ever whispered about. While most scientists worked with microscopes and ...

From beginning to end, 2025 was a year of devastation for scientists in the United States. The Conversation asked researchers from a range of fields to share how the Trump administration's science ...