A new study links regular egg consumption among adults aged 65 and older with a lower risk of Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Researchers found the strongest association among those eating at least five eggs per week.

Researchers from ETH Zurich have demonstrated why only a small number of planets have the chemical requirements for life — and why the Earth is so fortunate. Their findings may have consequences for the search for life elsewhere in the universe.

What began as a failed control experiment has led to a potentially important advance in drug chemistry. Researchers at the University of Cambridge discovered a light-driven reaction that enables late-stage modification of complex drug molecules under mild conditions.

Far from living on fish alone, prehistoric Europeans appear to have combined plants, seafood and other animal products into regionally distinct dishes. A new analysis of charred food residues in ancient pottery suggests that hunter-gatherer communities between the 6th and 3rd millennium BC had far more varied and sophisticated culinary traditions than previously assumed.

Vehicle-to-grid technology could give electric vehicles a second role beyond transport: stabilising the power system. A new study suggests that EVs can act as a distributed storage network, absorbing surplus renewable electricity and feeding it back into the grid at peak times.

Plastic waste could become more than an environmental burden: researchers are investigating how sunlight can turn it into hydrogen, syngas and industrial chemicals. The approach points to a possible route for cleaner fuels and circular plastics, but scaling it will depend on better sorting, more robust catalysts and economically viable reactor designs.

A new study tested six AI models developed by Meta, Google, Deepseek and Mistral AI and found that AI models can generate more complete summaries of complex cancer pathology reports than physicians.

Modern biologics and cell therapy programs increasingly rely on workflows that can generate high-quality cell lines and physiologically relevant 3D models with both speed and reproducibility. Yet many laboratories continue to experience bottlenecks rooted in manual processes, heterogeneous culture formats, and fragmented instrumentation. These challenges introduce variability, constrain throughput, and make it difficult to compare results across experiments or sites.

Scientists have engineered strains of a naturally occurring beneficial gut bacterium into a programmable “living medicine” to treat hepatic encephalopathy, a severe brain dysfunction linked to liver failure.

Hydrogen is often described as the fuel of the future — a clean, energy-dense way to store renewable power and decarbonize industries from steelmaking to shipping. But inside the devices that produce it, a surprisingly small and familiar phenomenon is getting in the way: bubbles.