ISA chief warns others may follow the US without swift global rules

Experten warnen: KI und Neurotechnik schreiten rasant voran, doch das Wissen über Bewusstsein hinkt hinterher – mit möglichen Folgen für Medizin, Recht und Ethik.

Professor Susie Dai has created a new kind of algae that grows in wastewater and can turn microplastics into biomass that is easy to collect and remove.

Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 05 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41579-026-01284-0The widespread prokaryotic immune systems, in particular restriction–modification, CRISPR–Cas and defensive toxin–antitoxin systems, are absent in eukaryotes, whereas relatively rare ones, such as Argonautes and antiviral STAND NTPases, became central to eukaryotic innate immunity. In this Comment, we hypothesize that the cause of this paradox is the drastic reduction of horizontal gene transfer rate in eukaryotes.

Wer nachhaltige Energie will und Batterien, Windturbinen, Solarpaneele bauen will, ist auf Rohstoffe angewiesen. Bleibt Europa auf Importe angewiesen?

Yoon et al. provide a broad overview of how all the RNA processing steps are intimately linked to transcription and to one another. They propose a U1 relay model as a general framework for understanding the mechanism for coupling transcription and RNA processing.

India’s government proposed a 200 billion rupees ($2.2 billion) program to ramp up the deployment of carbon capture utilization and storage technology, to help mitigate the emissions of five heavily polluting sectors.

Flooded by cheap Chinese goods, Latin America is fighting back to protect its industries

npj Biodiversity - The timing and nature of marine ecosystem recovery following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction