Stories by Nature magazine

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

A quantum computer has used a single atom to model the complex dynamics of organic molecules interacting with light

A CRISPR treatment seems to have been effective for a baby’s devastating disease, but it is not clear whether such bespoke therapies can be widely applied

Fossilized claw tracks discovered in Australia show that the animal group that includes reptiles, mammals and birds formed earlier than expected

A Google DeepMind system improves chip designs and addresses unsolved math problems but has not been rolled out to researchers outside the company

Results from a phase 3 clinical trial suggest that taking ubrogepant at the first sign of an oncoming migraine can prevent preheadache fatigue and light sensitivity

AI chatbot companions may not be real, but the feelings users form for them are. Some scientists worry about long-term dependency

Scientists at Europe’s famous particle collider briefly created gold ions from lead in a modern twist on the alchemical goal

Young people today will be exposed to a number of heat waves that no one would have experienced before the burning of fossil fuels started raising global temperatures

A new snakebite treatment combines an existing drug with antibodies from a hyperimmune reptile collector, raising both hopes and ethical concerns

National Science Foundation staff were told to freeze outgoing funding days after NSF leadership introduced a new policy that requires that grants be screened for “alignment with agency priorities”

Phoenician civilization spread its culture and alphabet across the Mediterranean but not, evidently, its DNA

The National Science Foundation, which funds key science and engineering research, is the latest U.S. agency to be disrupted by Elon Musk’s DOGE

New evidence shows plant leaves absorb airborne microplastics, a previously overlooked route for the particles to enter crops that has implications for ecology and human health

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope detected an intriguing compound in the atmosphere of the exoplanet K2-18 b, but scientists are divided about what the chemical means