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Samantha Harvey joins us to talk about her novel Orbital, shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize.

Experts speak to whether the president-elect will make good on his pledges for science.

A place to hide.

The treatment, given to four people with damaged corneas, seems safe but needs to be tested in larger trials.

Norway offers up to 2 hours of paid time per day for breastfeeding. Why do other countries’ parental support policies lag so far behind?

Physicist Mark Thomson will face several challenges — including bringing in enough money to build a colossal new particle-smashing ‘Higgs factory’.

Scientists raise the alarm following updated research ethics guidelines on heritable human genome editing.

The sex and ancestry of five people who died in the eruption are revealed by genetic material embedded in the casts.

Deciphering how mammals respond to sensations through their fur could inspire further research on skin sensitivity.

A satellite made of wood has been sent to the International Space Station, where it’ll later be released into orbit. Plus, we learn that snapshots of atomic nuclei smashing together can show us what shape they were.

Analysis of billions of pages of results from searches using the Bing algorithm suggests that reliable sites appear in search results 19 to 45 times more often than do sites with low-quality content.

Mitochondria form two distinct subpopulations enabling them to produce essential cell components and energy, even under nutrient stress.

Cooperative species of extrachromosomal DNAs are coordinately inherited through mitotic co-segregation.

A method for design of polymer membranes uses strategically placed pendant groups with specific hydrophobicity to precisely tailor hydrated pore size, with applications in ion-conducting membranes for redox flow batteries.

A modular autonomous platform for general exploratory synthetic chemistry uses mobile robots to integrate an automated synthesis platform and two analysis platforms.

Analysis of the stellar population properties of 30 host galaxies of fast radio bursts (FRBs) suggests an abundance of FRBs in massive star-forming galaxies, and implies that the formation of FRB sources—magnetars—is linked to core-collapse supernovae of stellar merger remnants.

Mice generalize complex task structures by using neurons in the medial frontal cortex that encode progress to task goals and embed behavioural sequences.