US biology lab locked down for more than a week amid smuggling inquiry
A lab at the University of Indiana Bloomington is under scrutiny from the US Department of Agriculture.Credit: Michael Hickey/Getty Biologists
Immune cells in the blood drive cognitive ageing — blocking them improves memory
Age-related memory decline could be caused by ageing immune cells.Credit: JasonDoiy/Getty A type of immune cell circulating in the blood
Hantavirus outbreak exposes uncertainty about how disease spreads
Passengers disembarked from the MV Hondius at the Canary Islands wearing personal protective equipment.Credit: Chris McGrath/Getty Close to 150 passengers
How a passion for baking fermented a fresh career move
Chantle Edillor 00:08 I believe that the creativity, you know, the uniqueness of the perspectives that I had, you know,
Quantum ‘thermometer’ takes temperatures inside living cancer cells
A cancer cell (nucleus in blue, cellular ‘skeleton’ in green). Scientists have devised nanosensors that can measure the temperature inside
This organoid can menstruate — and shows how tissue can repair itself
Gynaecological disorders such as endometriosis could be studied using endometrium organoids.Credit: fizkes/Shutterstock Researchers have developed organoids that can regenerate like
Intrinsic polar vortex crystals in A-site layer-ordered perovskites
Fert, A., Reyren, N. & Cros, V. Magnetic skyrmions: advances in physics and potential applications. Nat. Rev. Mater. 2, 17031
Entire NSF science advisory board fired by Trump administration
Researchers serving on the National Science Board, which advises the US National Science Foundation, received a brief email on Friday
Thousands of Harvard graduate students strike — bringing research to a halt
Graduate student workers picket in front of the Harvard Science Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 21 April.Credit: John Tlumacki/The Boston
What does the future hold for the thawing Arctic?
Unfrozen: The Fight for the Future of the Arctic Mia Bennett & Klaus Dodds Yale Univ. Press (2025) From the