Researchers are racing to culture a menagerie of exotic organisms and finding lots of surprises along the way.

Fewer people are reading for pleasure, but getting lost in a good book has repeatedly been linked to substantial cognitive benefits

There are more than two million robots working in China's factories - and they are scaling up fast.

Nasa-funded project uses yeasts to turn plastics and other waste into edible proteins, fats and flavourings

“Humanitarian Demining” in Ukraine to Help Feed the World

Rates are now the highest they've been in nearly 50 years among veteran coal miners. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines.

Deer antlers are a bony organ solely able to acquired distinct unique attributes during evolution and all these attributes are against thus far known natural rules. One of them is as the fastest anima...

With no key agreement signed on the Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline, there is a risk that the window of opportunity for Russia will close if Chinese power generation becomes so green that new gas sour...

Altman says AI superintelligence is so close, so mind-bending, so disruptive that America needs a new social contract.

And How to Stop It

Researchers find snake metabolite that suppresses appetite of obese mice ‘without some of side-effects’ of GLP-1 drugs

Donald Trump’s Department of Justice quietly caved in one of its biggest brawls with the federal judiciary on Monday.

Scientists in the US have uploaded a fruit fly to a computer simulation, while an Australian lab has taught neurons on a glass chip to play a 90s video game. How long before we are all living in a sci...

How did Jimi Hendrix turn his guitar into a wave synthesizer? Dive into the engineering behind his iconic sound.

It’s not an arms race if each country wants different things

It is one of the most infectious diseases around, and can cause blindness and hearing loss – and can also be fatal. Why are cases now soaring and what can be done about it?

It is one of the most infectious diseases around, and can cause blindness and hearing loss – and can also be fatal. Why are cases now soaring and what can be done about it?

Wikipedia's 25th anniversary sparks a debate: Can it adapt to the needs of Gen Z and beyond?

As one of her first acts as Attorney General, Pam Bondi wrote a letter to the new head of the FBI, Kash Patel, demanding that the “full and complete Epstein files” be delivered to her office by the ne...

Harnessing Earth's ambient heat, this device powers fans without solar or batteries.

Yifat Merbl is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025.

The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...