Physicists are getting closer to creating a long-sought ‘nuclear clock’. This device would keep time by measuring energy transitions in the nuclei of atoms and could become the most precise clock on ...

But powerful magnets are usually large and energy hungry. Chukun Gao at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and her colleagues sought to build a small ultra-strong magnet that would ...

Download the Nature Briefing Podcast 20 March 2026. In this episode: 00:22 Exploring how gut microorganisms contribute to ageing. Nature: Memory loss is fuelled by gut microbes in ...

The environmentalist founded the field of co-evolution, and warned that rapid human expansion would cause biodiversity collapse and famine.

Engineered tissue could eventually be used for children born with gaps in their alimentary canal, or for adults whose muscles ...

Compounds that are used to make plastics and personal-care products were found in all types of marine environment, a meta-analysis shows.

Scientists have identified the neurons that worsen the condition during stress. For people with eczema, stress can trigger ...

The metric called ‘biological age’ takes a person’s health into consideration, and therefore can be higher or lower than their chronological age. The pace at which a person’s biological age changes ...

Muscle mass increased or remained stable relative to body weight in middle-aged mice and humans on GLP-1 drugs.

Gerd Faltings, a number theorist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, has won the 2026 Abel Prize, ...

A well-fitted ‘disguise’ allows transplanted mitochondria to slip into cells whose own mitochondria are defective, scientists ...