A selection of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards 2026 finalists – from a shortlist featuring a caiman wearing a wig, a leopard doing a handstand, a strutting white-tailed eagle and a polar bear appeari...

Bill McGuire, emeritus professor, Geophysical & Climate Hazards, University College London is unique within the scientific community. He claims that

Coacervates, formed via liquid–liquid phase separation, are dynamic droplets generally used to analyze subcellular functions and the origin of life. Their independent microenvironments, selective enrichment, and signal responsiveness make them fundamental models of protocells that exhibit the characteristics required for drug delivery including high encapsulation efficiency, selective permeability, and responsive release. This review compares the development, design principles, and key characteristics of coacervate systems in these two areas and how they may inform each other, highlighting coacervates as a versatile platform connecting basic research into the origins of life with biomedical applications. Current challenges are critically discussed to offer valuable insights for future interdisciplinary development and encourage productive exchange between prebiotic compartmentalization and biomedical engineering.

In a new report, the A.I. start-up added that it could not determine if the research was legitimate or nefarious, leading the company to shut down the work.

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Mary Tsingou Menzel, who has died at 97, played a central role in a Los Alamos physics experiment. A half-century later, she finally got her due.

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The People’s Emergency Briefing has been screened nearly 2,000 times around the UK - and Germany is preparing its own.

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

Nature - Learning millisecond protein dynamics from what is missing in NMR spectra

Mutations at sites distant from a protein’s active site can disrupt function through allosteric mechanisms. Here, authors present evidence that allostery is a widespread and underappreciated cause of ...