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Paul Howarth, president of the Institute of Physics, says 'constructive dialogue' with the government is needed, or the country risks losing the next generation of scientists.

Asexual reproduction should be an evolutionary dead end. A study of asexual fish shows that a genetic 'copy and paste' helps to overcome the predicted costs of asexuality.

The energy-efficient, high-resolution sensor consists of 352 × 176 pixels on a focal plane array.

Neonatal sepsis caused by Escherichia coli is associated with reduced transfer of pathogen-specific maternal antibodies and, in a mouse model, can be prevented by maternal preconceptual colonization with probiotic E. coli.

Collaboration between researchers and religious leaders led to a cut in the likelihood of early marriage by 80%.

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Study of 600,000 US military veterans shows that those who took anti-obesity medications were less likely to develop some complications of substance-use disorders.

A survey of tropical insect populations and thermal tolerance limits indicates that species from lowland areas have low capacity to survive increased temperatures, and that thermal tolerance is limited by fundamental properties of protein ...

The daily supplement slows markers of ageing on two epigenetic 'clocks'. Plus, the real science of skincare and the domino effect of fictional case studies involving opioids in breastmilk.

Age-related microbiome changes increase medium-chain fatty acid-producing bacteria, driving GPR84-mediated myeloid inflammation, impaired vagal signalling and hippocampal dysfunction; targeting this gut-brain pathway restores memory in aged mice.