Rebecca Trager meets a cross-disciplinary team investigating an ancient way to make yoghurt, which involved a trip to a tiny Bulgarian village ...

Scientists warn that non-animal methods are unlikely to ever replace animal testing, particularly in discovery science ...

Methanol in alcoholic drinks kills thousands every year. How does this toxic compound enter drinks, why is it dangerous and what can you do to stay safe?

This year, the festival was themed around ‘The Science of Light’ and the organisers were keen to feature work from scientists. With her background in chemistry, coding and robotics – and interest in ...

A lawsuit in South Africa accuses petrochemicals giant Sasol of abusing its ethylene supply monopoly. The lawsuit has been brought by KAP Industrial, the parent company of Safripol, South Africa’s ...

Switzerland is once more officially part of Horizon Europe, Digital Europe and Euratom research and training programmes ...

James Watson, who shared the Nobel prize for his work on DNA’s molecular structure, has died at the age of 97.

With N2O emissions up 40% in four decades, scientists are searching for answers. Anthony King looks at potential solutions to keep fertiliser nitrogen in the soil ...

Metsera, the US biotech with a pipeline of next-generation metabolic hormone weight loss drugs, has agreed a sale to Pfizer following a bidding war between the US pharma giant and Novo Nordisk.

UK public support for R&D is ‘broad but shallow’, according to a new report by the Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE). The science advocacy group warns that public backing for science ...

A new AI-guided process designs antibodies from scratch. The method relies on the RFdiffusion model developed in the lab of 2024 Nobel prize-winner David Baker, and produces new antibodies that target ...

Pilot-scale production achieved a fibre fineness similar to wool and a little coarser than cotton. The researchers also report that the fibre’s strength was 50% higher than natural protein fibres such ...