Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 23 September 2026

A new paper in Nature Medicine, co-authored by researchers, policymakers and practitioners from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, including Wellcome Chief Executive John-Arne Røttingen, argues t...

The insights and experiential knowledge of individuals with lived experience of bipolar disorder represent a valuable yet underutilized resource for i…

Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.

Gurholt et al. report associations between obesity and regional white matter phenotypes across commonly used diffusion magnetic resonance imaging metrics,

Even in scientific areas in which women are well represented, they are up to 40% more likely than men to leave research within 20 years.

We report structural and genetic links between the brainstem and blood pressure traits. We identified 65 shared loci between brainstem volumes and blood pressure traits and mapped these to 71 genes. The findings provide insights into shared genetic pathways and mechanisms linking brainstem and blood pressure traits.