Stories by Nature magazine

Better assessment of stress and tailored approaches to combat it could give clinicians the tools they need to fend off lasting damage to health

Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 million metric tons of nanoplastics are spread across just the top layer of the North Atlantic

Molecules from the 20-million-year-old teeth of a rhino relative are among the oldest ever sequenced, opening tantalizing possibilities to scientists

A protest at a congressional office building highlighted future research findings that vast cuts to science will erase

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ancient Egyptian, who lived when the earliest pyramids were built

GLP-1 drugs currently being tested in China target complications associated with obesity such as heart disease, fatty liver disease and type 2 diabetes

In 2008 scientists reported that rocks in Canada were the world’s oldest. New data appear to confirm this contested claim

A certain species of sea slug steals chloroplasts from algae and houses its contraband in special organelles that it can raid for food in times of need

Scientists warn against reading too much into a small experiment about ChatGPT and brain activity that is receiving a lot of buzz

Nuclear policy specialist David Albright explains how his organization is monitoring for damage to nuclear sites following U.S. and Israeli strikes

A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque

The strength of Earth’s magnetic field and the amount of oxygen in its atmosphere seem to be correlated—and scientists want to know why

Critics fear that U.S. Department of Health and Human Services chief RFK, Jr., known for his antivaccine views, has picked a crucial CDC committee that will be a “disaster for public health”

Physicists are a step closer to using quantum computers for simulations that are beyond the ability of any ordinary computers

A new brain-computer interface turns thoughts into singing and expressive speech in real time

Senators grilled NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya the day after more than 300 NIH staff members sent him a fiery letter protesting the cancellation of thousands of research projects

As cases of chronic kidney disease emerge in outdoor laborers around the world, scientists are finding that repeated damage from prolonged extreme heat seems to be a leading factor to kidney failure

Investigations by the Japanese company ispace identified issues with speed and an altitude sensor that likely doomed the lander

The White House’s budget plan for NASA would be woefully inadequate for achieving near-term human voyages to Mars, experts say

Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but potentially more transmissible

Behavioral ecologist David Hughes, who consulted on the video game that inspired the hit TV show The Last of Us, speaks about how our experience with the COVID pandemic changed the way we relate to zombie fiction

Straight out of science fiction, these contact lenses convert infrared light into visible light that humans can see

A new study suggests blood and urine samples could provide an objective measure of diets and help unravel their connections to disease

Researchers have tested an mRNA vaccine against avian influenza in calves with promising results