Seeds, fruit stones and other remnants hidden in a Sydney barracks in the nineteenth century show residents’ deviation from the standard diet.

The particle-physics funder will provide financial incentives to encourage practices such as data sharing and transparent peer review.

At-home DNA testing is no longer in high demand — and critics have raised concerns about unreliable tests and privacy.

Real-time imaging shows how plastic-stuffed cells form clumps that affect mouse movement.

First estimate of its type shows that cultivated seaweed beds can accumulate as much carbon as some natural ecosystems.

Immune cells lose their cancer-fighting prowess after taking tumours’ organelles on board.

Bidirectional transfer of mitochondria between cancer and immune cells.

The chance of a lucky break in biomedical research increases with bigger funding grants. Plus, the changing landscape of menopause treatments.

Huge analysis identifies regional variations in the criteria that institutions use to move researchers up the ranks.

Platform to accelerate the testing of antisense oligonucleotides.

A genome-wide analysis of bipolar disorder finds that the condition’s genetic architecture varies by subtype.

Insights from a high-throughput screening assay of rubisco variants could be used to engineer improved versions of this key enzyme.

A crystal engineered to have long-sought properties could have applications in technologies using terahertz light.

An easy-to-use and scalable tool analyses single-cell data with optimal transport, tracking millions of cells at once.

X-chromosome inactivation affects age-related decline in spatial memory.

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Electron-hole detection for distant chorus waves.

A census reveals sex-specific differences in sites that show recombination.

Blockbuster weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic could raise a person’s likelihood of developing arthritis. Plus, how to reimburse young people for their participation in research.

Nature asked the world’s largest health-research funders what they are doing to study a life stage experienced by half of humanity. Here is what some of them told us.

A lack of experienced imaging trainers in her native Uruguay put Marcela Díaz on the path towards mentorship.

Feng ‘Franklin’ Tao says that the University of Kansas violated its own policies after he was wrongly arrested under the China Initiative.

Researchers are exploring how to prolong ovarian life and revisiting hormone replacement therapy — a once routine treatment that has fallen out of favour.

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If one animal urinates, others are likely follow, according to a study of captive apes.

Amid stock-market jitters, quantum computing start-ups continue to make progress — and to score hundreds of millions of dollars in investments.

A study assessed 1.2 million biomedical publications and measured the ‘unexpectedness’ of their findings.

The new president signed decrees designed to shift the US government’s stance on climate and public health.

In response to the challenges posed by traditional computing architectures in handling big data and AI demands, neuromorphic computing has emerged as a promising alternative inspired by the brain's efficiency. This study focuses on three-terminal synaptic transistors utilizing graphene and P(VDF-TrFE) to achieve dynamic reconfigurability between excitatory and inhibitory response modes, which are crucial