The government’s curriculum review needs to be bold and cut what’s not working for young people, says Myles McGinley. Plus a letter from Prof Michael Bassey The emerging evidence on exams and mental ...

Chemotherapy remains one of the most powerful tools in the fight against cancer, yet it often comes with significant long-term side effects that can dramatically affect patients' quality of life.

Brain tissue that has been infected with a brain-eating amoeba. The article’s corresponding author Longfei Shu, from Sun Yat sen University, said in a press release, “What makes these organisms ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. As humanity lags far behind where it should be in reducing its greenhouse gas ...

Former athlete and Emmy-winning sports reporter Lindsay Simpson suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2018 that nearly took her life. At a recent event held by the National Academies of Sciences, ...

Some of the littlest organisms in the ocean wield incredible influence, both on their ecosystems and on the planet. Like plants do on land, phytoplankton absorb sunlight and carbon dioxide and expel ...

High-fashion model Stella Maxwell got dressed for Iris van Herpen’s most recent haute couture show in the dark. Around her, flashes of ultra-dim red light—designed to maintain the illusion of ...

In the Religious Landscape Study (RLS), we group Protestant respondents into one of three “traditions” – the evangelical tradition, mainline tradition or the historically Black Protestant tradition – ...

On the slope of a Utah mountain, lives the world's oldest living organism. It has lived there for thousands of years, living in harmony with the natural world around it, but today it is being slowly ...

Yizhi “Patrick” Cai is coordinating a global effort to write a complete synthetic yeast genome. If he succeeds, the resulting cell will be the artificial life most closely related to humans to date.

The world’s largest tree has been rigorously dated for the first time, confirming it is at least 16,000 years old. Named Pando, the tree is a quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) with around 47,000 ...