Civet cats enrich coffee beans they eat and excrete with two fatty acids often used in dairy products, study finds.

A theoretical study suggests that gravity could have quantum effects without itself being a quantum theory. Other researchers ...

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The approach, published on 23 October in Science, builds on a trend that is sweeping the field of drug discovery: the use of ...

RNA vaccines seem to boost the effectiveness of an immune therapy for skin and lung cancer ― in an unexpected way.

The firm says it has solved a problem on a quantum processor faster than a classical computer, and is optimistic about future ...

The rare samples, uncovered by China’s Chang’e-6 mission, might help to reveal secrets of how the Solar System evolved.

Communication between epithelial and mesenchymal cells in pancreatic cancer leads to a poor prognosis. The molecular basis ...

When students entered Tsinghua University in Beijing this year, one of the first representatives they met wasn’t a person.

US President Donald Trump asked US universities earlier this month to sign a ‘compact’ aligning their student admissions, ...

Earlier this year, many university departments slashed their incoming PhD classes in a last-minute scramble as the Trump ...