An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.

The 2026 Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak has renewed attention to the conditions under which patients enter isolation and families confront death and burial. Recent commentary explained why the legi...

Renovations are welcome. But after two years, the Kennedy Center may end up right back where it started: in a self-imposed quagmire.

More water vapor means more rocket fuel for extreme rain — so this record is not good news

Air pollution in dozens of cities rose after U.S. embassies stopped providing readings that had previously spurred local government action, a study found.

As Nebraska’s Republican Governor Jim Pillen publicly backs Trump’s ICE raids in the state, more details have emerged of Pillen’s multimillion-dollar hog business that employs undocumented workers. T...

Global democracy is in crisis, with key indicators hitting record lows. The US, under Trump, is named as "patient zero." How can we reverse this dangerous decline and protect our freedoms?

NASA has been moving engineers out of their labs as a way to reduce waste. But the moves may be limiting the agency's ability to make spacecraft.

Since the last Disease Outbreak News was published on 28 August 2026, the Bundibugyo virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has expanded to one additional health zone, Kayna, in North ...

New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.

The dark, red tongue spreading in the Pacific is growing at a rate not seen in living memory. The uncertainty over what is driving it has alarmed experts.

We touch our faces often. Maybe 3 to 23 times an hour often! But if our hands haven't just been washed and we've touched surfaces contaminated by viruses surviving in a blanket of dry (or

She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.

Nature Medicine, Published online: 24 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41591-026-04664-4In a case series of an adult and four children with high- to in…

Ice cream was a rare and expensive treat for centuries because of the difficulty of storing ice. That changed in the 1800s, when inventions like mechanical refrigeration made ice cream cheaper and mor...

Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe talks to Bob McDonald about the polarization of science and why she thinks scientists should stop pretending to be neutral when it's our planet at risk.

Nature Medicine - Bundibugyo Ebola without vaccines or therapeutics: why public health fundamentals matter more than border closures