An El Niño is coming, models say, but Nature spoke to researchers about when and how we’ll know its intensity.

A type of immune cell circulating in the blood contributes to cognitive ageing, and blocking its effects can reverse the ...

More than 140,000 fake citations across four research repositories were identified in papers and preprints published in 2025 ...

Does prostate-cancer screening with the common ‘PSA’ blood test save lives? The Cochrane, an influential group renowned for its gold-standard medical reviews, has previously addressed that question ...

It’s hard to imagine that a snail could kill a person, but a particularly venomous group of marine molluscs called cone ...

A sweeping analysis of sleep duration and signs of ageing in half a million adults has pinpointed a sweet spot — about six to ...

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Antarctic ice contains evidence that Earth entered an interstellar dust cloud more than 40,000 years ago 1. As the Solar ...

Pregnancy poses many challenges, including protecting against infection and increased nutritional demands.

An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in people exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus at home, according to trial results published today in the New England Journal of ...

For most of modern history, economic growth has been tightly coupled with the use of fossil fuels. Cities now house more than ...