Clive Cookson

Roman Space Telescope expected to help explain dark matter while discovering thousands of planets beyond our solar system

Proteins stack up in layers like sheets of paper to start to form clots, scientists find

Study compared lung size and function of 1,600 six- to nine-year-olds with a matched group in Luton

Spectators and scientists gathered to witness full or partial blocking of the Sun across the northern hemisphere

Genomic language model has huge potential to redesign organisms such as bacteria

Astronomers hail discovery as a milestone in the search for extraterrestrial life

AI is spotting patterns in fresh and old data with surprisingly little computing power

The liver’s iron-rich immune cells act as an internal compass that helps pigeons detect Earth’s magnetic field

SpaceX absent from first round of commercial agreements for US space agency’s $20bn project

Scientists have used the technology to model the behaviour of protein molecules