Unverified rumours swirl around the death of a Siberian laboratory technician. Nature talks to a biosecurity specialist to unpack the fallout.

Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers

C.H. Waddington’s powerful image of embryonic stem cells specializing on a rolling landscape has captivated biologists since the 1950s. Experimental data is finally confirming, and complicating, his v...

This essay, co-authored by a historian of science and an X-ray crystallographer, sheds new light on Rosalind Franklin’s Photograph 51. We refute the infamous claim that, unlike James Watson, Franklin ...

Flu cases are surging in Washington state, much sooner than when health officials usually expect the illness to peak in winter.

Although commodity supply chains and financial markets are highly globalised, a small number of investors and countries could be viewed as disproportionally influential in sectors that increase EIDs r...

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic will be among the most significant global health crises of several generations. The causative virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is almo...

This and other questions posed by the One Health approach, on the twentieth anniversary of its first adoption.

The viral lineage responsible for the February 2021 outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Guinea is nested within a clade that predominantly consists of genomes sampled during the 2013–2016 epidemic, sug...

Genomic and fossil records could offer clues to the mammal’s ability to kill damaged cells that might eventually improve human health

Biggest study of its kind provides insights into bats’ evolution – a potential gamechanger for research into human virus and cancer treatment

Why we should wash our hands of this unhealthy phrase.

Theory can help address cell and molecular biology’s major challenges, particularly those arising from large omics datasets.

Nature Human Behaviour - Embryo screening and the new reproductive divide

Report finds some chatbots ignored upcoming tax changes and hallucinated rules

Smallpox DNA from two people buried in Chile reveals the virus’s arrival through European colonisation – but recreating it would require deliberate laboratory work.

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Yet plenty of others might be, thanks to evolution.

Case studies from threat actors disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven areas of harm, from cyber operations to biological misuse.

As artificial intelligence drives breakthroughs in chemistry, the intellectual property community is struggling to keep pace

The brain's ability to generate quick, nimble volitional thought — and a unified awareness of thought and experience — arises from analog computations carried out by electrical waves, MIT neurosc...

The bomb that hit the residential area was American, according to a weapons expert and a visual analysis by The Times. It killed five people and wounded 67 others, the Iranian authorities said.

Based on multiple instances of human-to-human rabies transmission via organ or tissue transplantation from initially undiagnosed rabies-infected donors, we estimate 856 (213–2220) human rabies deaths ...