One of Andy Burnham’s first acts as new UK prime minister has been to abolish the government’s dedicated science department. Responsibility for the science and innovation portfolio now lies with the ...

Motor proteins power everything from muscle contraction to bacterial swimming. While replicating their chemically fuelled ...

The UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) will keep its three major multidisciplinary research facilities – including the Diamond Light Source synchrotron in Oxfordshire – operational, ...

Researchers and science sleuths have raised the alarm after uncovering hundreds of doctored images of validation Western ...

Sebastián Ayala Ruano, a PhD student at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, keenly remembers his first ...

The materials chemist on being a scientific contrarian, his love of cricket, and what AI might mean for materials science ...

The UK’s Defence and Science Technology Laboratory (DSTL) has officially opened a new, state-of-the-art NMR suite at its site in Porton Down, Salisbury. ‘“What’s in a sample?” may seem like a simple ...

Driven by recycling limitations in South Korea, chemists have made hydrogen from plastic waste with less than half the carbon ...

DSTL has been supporting investigations into the use of chemical weapons for over 25 years - here's how it does its job ...

Lawsuit alleges 3M, Chemours, DuPont and others knowingly sold polluting products, and seeks damages and cleanup cost ...