Both the UK and US Governments have pledged to end research using animals, but is such a goal realistic? And how might it change medical research? Talha Burki reports.

For a minimalism design, Kelly Slater's new Mindcraft model does quite a lot. Watch the breakdown with Kelly and Daniel ...

The real Boston-New York rivalry is no longer about baseball — it’s a race to see which city’s mayor can destroy the housing ...

Arkansas has some of the most varied weather and terrain in the country. Weather events have dramatically different impacts across the state and it affects farmers each year. The ...

How an excessive focus on methods has distracted attention from the more fundamental challenge of building rigor and learning ...

The allegations were leveled by U.S. officials late last week. Arms control experts worry that norms against nuclear testing ...

A novel behavioural task that measures and manipulates subjective control in humans reveals that experimentally heightened feelings of control buffer against the negative impact of subsequent stress.

Researchers offered a bonobo named Kanzi imaginary juice and grapes, presenting the tests as a kind of make-believe tea party ...

Scientists at Keck Medicine of USC are testing an experimental stem cell therapy that aims to restore the brain’s ability to ...

Gene regulation is far more predictable than previously believed, scientists conclude after developing the deep learning ...

Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's newsletter takes a look at the bad idea in housing policy that never seems to die: rent control. In Massachusetts, housing ...