Engineered tissue could eventually be used for children born with gaps in their alimentary canal, or for adults whose muscles ...

Physicists are getting closer to creating a long-sought ‘nuclear clock’. This device would keep time by measuring energy transitions in the nuclei of atoms and could become the most precise clock on ...

Scientists have identified the neurons that worsen the condition during stress. For people with eczema, stress can trigger ...

Download the Nature Briefing Podcast 20 March 2026. In this episode: 00:22 Exploring how gut microorganisms contribute to ageing. Nature: Memory loss is fuelled by gut microbes in ...

But powerful magnets are usually large and energy hungry. Chukun Gao at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and her colleagues sought to build a small ultra-strong magnet that would ...

Compounds that are used to make plastics and personal-care products were found in all types of marine environment, a meta-analysis shows.

Turing Award winners Gilles Brassard and Charles Bennett pioneered ideas that are now foundational to quantum computers and ...

Muscle mass increased or remained stable relative to body weight in middle-aged mice and humans on GLP-1 drugs.

There’s a shocking lack of understanding of the physics underlying this commonplace phenomenon, but researchers are on the ...

The cover shows the moth Idalus iragorri, one of many insect species found at low to medium elevations in the eastern Andes. More than 70% of all insect species are found in the tropics, but the ...

The powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR–Cas9 might offer a way to make safer, more effective cancer-fighting immune cells ...

Survey examines how often academics attempt jokes during conference talks — and how these attempts at comedy land.