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Briefing Chat: An invisible tattoo that appears under UV light – and then disappears
The world is closer to a major conservation target than scientists thought
Briefing Chat: Top researchers are being misled by sham academic societies
Nobel Prizes 2026: ‘ghost’ particles, mirror molecules and light switches in the brain
‘Learning about physics changed my life’: author Hernan Diaz on his new novel Ply
These optical illusions are why butterflies are so hard to catch
Briefing Chat: Why scientists made papyrus scrolls, then burnt them
Bank accounts reveal the fingerprints of abusive financial control
Briefing Chat: Evidence mounts for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb
Transplanted human brain-tissue takes root in mice without a cortex
Briefing Chat: The Bunsen burner myth that turns out to be just hot air
Phone tutoring boosts math scores when schools are forced to close
Briefing Chat: How 1,000 pairs of buried underpants helped measure soil health
Audio long read: Could mending damaged DNA prolong life?
Briefing Chat: How Dolly Parton left her mark on science
Highest-ever ocean temperatures recorded as El Niño intensifies
Briefing Chat: New narcolepsy drug could unlock host of novel brain therapies
A black hole's spin could finally be measured by a high-speed star
Briefing Chat: Anthropic rolls out new AI watermark — will it make a difference?
The probiotic bacteria engineered to treat diabetes
Briefing Chat: Is DNA repair the secret to a long life? Whales and mole-rats offer tantalizing hints
Junk plastic turns into high-value commodity with chemistry trick
Briefing Chat: Orcas smashed a sunfish to bits — researchers aren't sure why
Earthworks spotted in the Amazon hint at huge ancient civilization
Briefing Chat: Baby T. rex were killers from birth, suggest new fossils
What counts as a moon? Huge ‘exosatellite’ sparks debate
Briefing Chat: Sweet! Elusive sugar molecules found in space
‘Holy grail’ of naked mole-rat research reveals how queens rule
Briefing Chat: The 30 year-legacy of a science icon – Dolly the sheep
Nukes in space? Orbital detector could sniff out warheads
Togetherness: How co-operation built the world
Audio long read: Is the peptide craze backed by science? The promise behind the hype
Briefing Chat: What tickling a chimpanzee can tell us about the evolution of speech
Medical records could be revealed by AI training-data vulnerability
Briefing Chat: Testosterone and sperm may get a boost from obesity drugs
DNA from hunter-gatherer teeth reveals secrets of ancient plague
Briefing Chat: The epic journey of Stonehenge’s central stone
Newly-discovered whale graveyard dates back millions of years
Briefing chat: Spinosaurs with salt glands could have lived in marine environments
Your phone can use tiny skin-colour changes to measure your heart rate
Briefing Chat: When to trust eyewitness memory – according to science
Major Ebola outbreak is escalating: what happens next
AI ‘scientists’ promise to accelerate research — how do they work?
Briefing Chat: Hantavirus — what this outbreak reveals about the disease
Red-light therapy is all the rage — does it work?
Audio long read: The air is full of DNA — here’s what scientists are using it for
Briefing Chat: Can't focus? It's not your attention span, it's your notifications
Anaesthetized brains can still process podcasts
Briefing Chat: Stressed mitochondria spawn new 'organelles' in cells
Immunity gets a boost from a surprising place — breakfast
Inside the evidence revolution — how decision-making became data driven
Meet Ace, the table-tennis robot that can beat elite players
Briefing Chat: Penguins pick up PFAS pollution
Giant cancer study reveals effectiveness of 'off label' treatments
Behind the scenes with Artemis II’s scientists during the historic Moon fly-by
Briefing Chat: The tongue trick that helps sunbirds suck
Artemis II is go: humans head to the Moon after half-century absence
These scientists chased a jet to learn more about ‘lean-burn’ contrails
Briefing Chat: ‘Zombie cells’ resurrected with new genes
Why insects aren't huge: a new challenge to a decades-old idea
Briefing Chat: Are scientists funny? The evidence is in — and it's no joke
Botanical mystery solved: how plants make a crucial malaria drug
Briefing chat: ‘Can it run Doom?’ — why scientists got brain cells and a satellite to play the classic game
This fish shouldn’t exist — the weird genetics of clonal vertebrates
Briefing chat: What Galileo’s scribbled margin notes reveal about his scientific journey
Heart surgery with quick-setting magnetic fluid could prevent strokes
Audio long read: Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains?
Briefing chat: Pokémon turns 30 — how Pikachu and pals inspired generations of researchers
How earthquakes and lightning help explain squeaky sneakers
Briefing chat: How hovering bumblebees keep their cool
This chunk of glass could store two million books for 10,000 years
Briefing Chat: Caffeine slows brain ageing, suggests decades of data
These hungry immune cells tidy sleeping flies' brains
Briefing Chat: 'External lungs' keep man alive for 48 hours until transplant
These mysterious ridges could help skin regenerate
Briefing Chat: What Brazilian centenarians could reveal about the science of ageing
How your brain chemistry rewards hard work
Audio long read: ‘I rarely get outside’ — scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI
Briefing Chat: The canny cow that can use tools, and how babies share their microbiomes
The biggest 'Schrödinger's cat' yet — physicists put 7,000 atoms in superposition
Briefing Chat: Can NASA return rocks from Mars? And why dogs have long ears
AI can turbocharge scientists' careers — but limit their scope
A mysterious ancient fingerprint and a lemon-shaped planet — the stories you’ve missed
Science in 2026: what to expect this year
Audio long read: Will blockbuster obesity drugs revolutionize addiction treatment?
The Nature Podcast highlights of 2025
Nature's News & Views roundup of 2025
The Nature Podcast festive spectacular 2025
Neanderthals mastered fire — 400,000 years ago
Photobombing satellites could ruin the night sky for space telescopes
Audio long read: Faulty mitochondria cause deadly diseases — fixing them is about to get a lot easier
This is what lightning on Mars sounds like
Insulin cream offers needle-free option for diabetes
‘Malicious use is already happening’: machine-learning pioneer on making AI safer
Huge eruption on a distant star confirmed at last
Meet the ‘Wee-rex’. Tiny tyrannosaur is its own species
Bowhead whales can live for more than 200 years – this protein might be why
Audio long read: How to get the best night’s sleep — what the science says
Honey, I ate the kids: how hunger and hormones make mice aggressive
New bird flu vaccine could tackle multiple variants with one shot