Stories by Nature magazine

People with aphantasia have no mental imagery—and they’re offering brain scientists a window into consciousness

Federal freezes to foreign assistance are affecting grants for investigative reporters everywhere—but especially in poorer countries

Isomorphic Lab’s proprietary drug-discovery model is a major advance, but scientists developing open-source tools are left guessing how to achieve similar results

Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website, a Nature investigation finds

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies represent the first animal lineage. Now some are calling for a more harmonious approach

More than one third of cancer cases are preventable, a massive study finds

The six-year results from the Dark Energy Survey highlight unresolved tensions in standard cosmological theory

Socializing children at a young age helps them develop greater diversity in their microbiome, according to an analysis of baby-to-baby transmission of gut bacteria

A record-breaking experiment shows that a cluster of thousands of atoms can act like a wave as well as a particle

Scientists are just beginning to understand the signals that determine the length of dogs’ ears

Immense progress in gene editing, drug discovery and conservation are just some of the reasons to be cheerful about 2025

More than 1 in 10 children in the U.S. have ADHD, fueling debate over the condition and how to treat it

RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisory panel will be discussing the inclusion of adjuvants in childhood vaccinations today. Here’s what’s at stake

Combining newer neural networks with older AI systems could be the secret to building an AI to match or surpass human intelligence

The Make America Healthy Again summit, attended by RFK, Jr., and J. D. Vance, gave a sense of what’s driving U.S. health policy

Ethicists say AI-powered advances will threaten the autonomy of people who use neurotechnology

Fitness influencers promote superhigh-protein diets, but studies show there’s only so much the body can use

In a successful transplant in a man with brain death, scientists prevented the immune system from attacking a genetically modified pig kidney for 61 days, the longest such an experiment has lasted

The milestone makes machine-learning trailblazer Yoshua Bengio the most cited researcher on Google Scholar

Oceanographers hope to find otherworldly ecosystems at hydrothermal vents on the Arctic seafloor

A large international study suggests that being multilingual can slow down cognitive aging

The first image from the Vera C. Rubin telescope reveals a previously unnoticed feature of the galaxy M61 that may explain its mysterious properties

A noninvasive imaging technique can translate scenes in your head into sentences. It could help to reveal how the brain interprets the world

A “superflare” 10 trillion times brighter than the sun is confirmed as the record holder for luminosity