Science

The aerospace engineer is the mission director for Ispace. ‘The idea is that by 2040 there will be about a thousand people living permanently on the Moon, and around 40,000 tourists a year’

US groups aim to represent their country at the UN climate summit even as the Trump Administration declines to send a delegation

A major European clinical research event in oncology gives a boost to antibody–drug conjugates, treatments that work like a Trojan horse, delivering chemotherapy to the interior of malignant cells

After publishing more than 100 articles in scientific journals, Álex Gómez Marín has shut down his animal lab and now works with hospitals to study human consciousness

As the Mexican government considers using this process again to increase dwindling oil reserves, the activist and scientist warns of the social and environmental consequences

The lynching, captured on video deep in the jungle, sheds light on the reality of the animals. Females exert power over males, who are larger and stronger, through a matriarchy woven with intense social bonds

After surviving the encounter with a nearly four-meter-long specimen, Mauricio Hoyos continues to fight against the stigma surrounding these animals

Ethology is increasingly documenting cases of animals that pass on knowledge to each other

The treatment, which is administered only once, has allowed a little girl named Eliana Nachem, confined to her home to avoid infections, to go out into the world

Researchers say the remains of ‘Paranthropus boisei’ reveal that this ancient relative was capable of powerfully manipulating objects and food, climbing trees, and perhaps making tools

The project aims to rescue and care for these felines and return them to the wild, as well as to study their lineage and safeguard their DNA material

The psychedelic drug specialist at the University of Cambridge discusses the potential of these drugs to treat mental illness

The multinational company opens one of the most advanced computational research complexes in the world in the Basque city of San Sebastián

A study reveals the secrets behind the rodent’s remarkable ability to live 10 times longer than expected, without cancer or age-related degenerative diseases. When applied to fruit flies, researchers created ‘superflies’

The auxiliary graft functioned well for the first month, but had to be removed due to complications. The 71-year-old patient, who suffered from cirrhosis and liver cancer, died four months later

The International Astronomical Union has named an asteroid after the Victorian stargazer, who studied the skies for 25 years from Cambridge University, but whose work has remained forgotten for more than a century

The Nobel Prize winner in Medicine is investigating genetic changes that could have given our species a competitive advantage, and the possibility of extracting the genome of the Flores hobbit

The former Greek finance minister warns of the dangers of what he calls cloud capital, the driving force behind technofeudalism

Scientists are increasingly drawn to unmanaged colonies of this species, which use a variety of strategies to protect themselves when left to live on their own

An international commission of scientists proposes changes to combat environmental degradation and disease. The key: less animal protein and more plants

Researchers say the catalog has already led to the identification of genetic mechanisms involved in kidney cancer and will help develop personalized treatments in oncology

The research, which followed dozens of siblings for nearly half a century, found that physical activity in midlife showed a modest positive association with verbal fluency, but not with other cognitive functions

She revolutionized science since the 1960s with her innovative methods and fascinating discoveries about wild chimpanzees

The Harvard Medical School professor warns of the dangers of new technologies to enhance brain capacity, because what improves some abilities can worsen others