In November 2023, the UK became the first country in the world to authorise a Crispr gene-editing therapy.

Scientists have uncovered three nitriles in lab-made interstellar ice that could serve as new targets for astronomers ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recommitted to a goal from the first Trump administration to end animal ...

When it was announced in 2023 that the world’s first Crispr-based gene-editing therapy had been approved in the UK there was ...

Programme that targeted academics affiliated with China won't be reestablished after groundswell of university opposition ...

Model predicts effect of mutations on sequences up to 1 million base pairs in length and is adept at tackling complex ...

Saudi Basic Industries (Sabic) has sold its petrochemical plants in Europe and its thermoplastics business in Europe and the ...

A rare copper nanocluster has been synthesised that behaves as a ‘superatom’. The Chinese team hopes it will unlock copper’s ...

However, the number of UK participants involved in Horizon 2020 research proposals declined in every subsequent year from ...

A new study suggests it had an 'outer' cell that reacted with air to supply a higher voltage. But was it a battery at all?

The UK’s carbon-intensive steel, cement and chemicals industries have warned that – in its current form – the carbon border tax due to be introduced in 2027 will accelerate the decline of domestic ...

Researchers in the UK have now adapted a Raman spectroscopy technique to analyse preservation fluids in specimen jars without ...