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

Promising trial results suggest cancer vaccines work and could be used to target other tumours.

Analysis of neighbourhoods in more than 100 US cities finds no evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime.

Moderna’s newly approved vaccine could allow manufacturers to respond more rapidly to changing influenza strains.

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 14 August 2026

Some say there’s a global crisis of trust — but research reveals where the real problems lie.

PURPOSEExcess weight is a key modifiable risk factor for breast cancer. Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1) promote weight loss and improve metabolic health, but their effect on breast c...

A systematic assessment of health-related queries to a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence highlights shortfalls in health-care provision and the responsibilities of AI companies.

Ambitious studies have been examining the protective effects of diet, exercise and socializing — with surprising results.

Hundreds of New York Times readers shared their experiences with early-onset cancers. Here are seven of their stories.

The papers’ watermarks allowed organizers to detect use of large language models in peer review.

Studies aiming to maximize human creativity demonstrate that people work best when buoyed up by others who show them new ways to innovate.

Isomorphic Lab’s proprietary drug-discovery model is a major advance, but scientists developing open-source tools are left guessing how to achieve similar results.

Data-analysis and modelling positions are already becoming obsolete, but hands-on experimentalists can breathe easy for now.

The United Kingdom and Brazil have issued warnings about a possible link between GLP-1 weight-loss drugs and pancreatic inflammation, but the connection is murky.

The more mice exercise, the more connections form between some neurons in their brains, study finds.

‘Exercise snacks’ and other forms of everyday movement can greatly reduce the risk of heart disease and death.

Do you struggle with the blank page? These strategies could help.

Study of more than 100,000 people supports your parents’ advice: eat your veggies.

Nuclear fusion. People on Mars. Artificial general intelligence. These are just some of the advances that could come by the mid-century mark.

If you’ve hatched a New Year plan to move abroad, improve your presentations or chase happiness as a 20-something researcher, you’ll find advice aplenty in these books.

The rise of AI scientists, missions to explore the moons of Earth and Mars and a massive ocean-floor drill are among the developments set to shape research in 2026.

Jame Abraham, MD, Chair of the Department of Hematology & Medical Oncology at Cleveland Clinic Cancer Institute, joins the Cancer Advances Podcast to discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) is transf...

BioNTech’s HER2 antibody-drug conjugate has beaten< | BioNTech’s HER2 antibody-drug conjugate has beaten Roche’s Kadcyla in a phase 3 breast cancer trial, positioning the company’s partner Duality Bio...

Allocation to 5 further years of AIT reduced subsequent distant recurrence rates by about a quarter despite substantial non-adherence. Longer follow-up would have been needed to help assess directly a...

Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are a heterogeneous group of diseases that are prognostically stratified into lower-risk (LR-MDS) and higher-risk MDS on the basis of the International Prognostic Scori...