Menopause is an important biological transition with up to 72 symptoms that shapes aging trajectories across organs and encompasses ~40% of the female lifespan. Although menopause awareness is increas...

A Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.

Voyaging gut-derived immune cells ‘remember’ past stomach infections in mice.

They’re designing viruses, reversing the aging process, and saving lives.

Small trial hints at regenerative potential of bone-seeking marrow cells.

The company says it has cracked the physics of fluids using AI, solving one of the toughest puzzles in mathematics.

Hundreds of millions of people have long-term conditions as a result of an infection. Researchers are working out how to help them.

An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defence.

Results bolster hopes that the drug daraxonrasib could prove effective against a variety of tumours.

High sea surface temperatures are expected to weaken ocean carbon sinks and damage coral reefs.

US biomedical agency no longer considers policymakers as ‘mission relevant’, leaving dozens of grants in limbo.

Bispecific antibodies, which bind to two targets, are sweeping into the clinic and are prompting even more elaborate versions.

Nature reveals the studies that are mentioned most often in patent filings — and why.

Testicle sample removed from a ten-year-old before chemotherapy and frozen proves viable 16 years later.

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Ethical discussions are urgently needed as genome-editing science advances, some researchers say.

Once the realm of science fiction, the idea of making Mars habitable is gaining traction. Nature consulted with key scientists to develop this experimental adventure.

The papal letter goes beyond a religious document and diagnoses a failure in AI governance that the scientific community should heed.

Health outcomes were better in people who slept between about six and eight hours a day.

Researchers are increasingly sounding the alarm that artificial intelligence could end humanity. But such doomsday warnings carry their own risks.

Members of the National Science Board, which the US Congress founded in 1950, were given no explanation for their termination.

Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

Survey examines how often academics attempt jokes during conference talks — and how these attempts at comedy land.

Gene-editing technique promises a potentially safer way to create CAR T cells with a simple injection.

A locally tailored, big-push intervention to educate unmarried adolescent girls in 18 communities in northern Nigeria reduced rates of marriage from 86% to just 21%. Interventions that address complex...

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The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

Jack Horner, who was a consultant for the Jurassic Park films, is among the researchers whose work or careers have been affected because of revelations from newly released documents.

Overturning the 2009 decision means billions of extra tonnes of greenhouse-gas emissions over the next three decades.

Full Committee Hearing on February 3, 2026 at 5:00 AM

RFK Jr’s vaccine advisory panel will be discussing the inclusion of adjuvants in childhood vaccinations this week. Here’s what’s at stake.

Through lawsuits, grant tracking, whistle-blowing and more, resistance to the US war on science is growing.

ALT: a group of people are dancing in a room with the words `` happy dance '' .

Nature - Stunning results in mice herald gene-editing advances for neurological diseases.

In a rare move for a US public official, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr called for a Danish paper finding no link between aluminium in vaccines and disease to be retracted.

People, companies, and government agencies don’t always return your phone calls. To investigate secretive subjects, reporters can make creative use of documents that are out in the open. Lawsuits, Ins...

An analysis of how various tissues age is the latest to suggest that ageing does not march to a steady beat.

US agency’s new policy could abruptly end studies of infectious diseases and cancer, leaving researchers scrambling for funds.

The decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government will likely appeal.

Unemployed researchers face some tough career choices as they flood the job market after the Trump administration’s cuts to science.

Immune-cell function improved in a teenager whose DNA was altered using prime editing.