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The COVID-19 pandemic seemed like a never-ending parade of SARS-CoV-2 variants, leaving the world bracing for what would come next. But what if there were a way to make predictions about new viral variants before they actually emerge?

A new study highlights the vast array of functional diversity of microbes through a novel approach to better understand microbial communities by looking at protein function within them.

Are we living in a simulation? A new law of physics could support the theory that we are simply characters in an advanced virtual world.

Scientists at the UCL Institute for Neurology have developed new tools, based on AI language models, that can characterise subtle signatures in the speech of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Researchers have investigated how the toxin emerged between 50 and 120 million years ago through the modification of a gene that also occurs in mammals and other reptiles.

A new neural network that can explain how it reaches its predictions has been developed to examine the intricacies of RNA splicing.

A landmark study analyzing over 54,000 samples from the UK Biobank has been published in Nature. Conducted by the Pharma Proteomics Project, it is the largest body of work analyzing the effects of common gene variations on blood proteins.

An individual diagnosed with type 2 diabetes at age 30 years could see their life expectancy fall by as much as 14 years, an international team of researchers has warned.

A new research study addresses a central question of climate change research: how much warming can be expected from adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere as standards of living increase around the world?

Cancer tumors "hijack" the genetic program used by developing nerves. In the long term, the results may open up new ways of treating cancer by limiting the tumour’s interaction with the nerves.