Researchers advance by standing on the shoulders of giants, to paraphrase Isaac Newton. So, which research giants are still getting cited frequently today? One way of answering that is to determine ...

The first quarter of the twenty-first century has produced some huge scientific breakthroughs, ranging from the first mRNA vaccines and CRISPR-based gene-editing techniques to the discovery of the ...

What is the most highly cited paper in the scientific literature? Chances are slim that most researchers know the answer. It turns out to be a 1951 publication in the Journal of Biological Chemistry ...

Preliminary copies of some of the US government’s spending plans suggest that President Donald Trump’s administration intends ...

A system that helps visually impaired people to navigate their surroundings using cameras, earphones and artificial ...

US National Science Foundation announces lowest number of Graduate Research Fellowship Programme recipients in 15 years.

Physics are sketching the designs of a particle accelerator that would be radically smaller and cheaper than existing ...

The NIH is by far the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research, with an annual budget of US$47 billion paying for ...

Researchers are studying why the energy factories are moving between cells and whether the process can be harnessed to treat ...

To test whether the neurons were functional, the researchers injected them into the brains of rats treated with a neurotoxin ...

Gene editing and many other useful biotechnology tools came from studies of bacteria fighting off viral invaders. But ...

The IEA report finds that the US, Europe, and China are collectively responsible for 85% of data centres’ current energy ...