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There are many markers of fall: vibrant foliage, apple picking and pumpkin-spiced everything, to name a few. Cranking up the heat is another. With record-setting energy prices, everyone is bracing...
A study comparing 100 primate species, including humans, suggests that everyday aggression and lethal violence did not evolve as part of the same simple behavioral spectrum. Species that frequently...
New research suggests animals could have evolved as early as 800 to 700 million years ago, roughly 200 million years earlier than some previous estimates. If so, the first animals may have lived...
A sharp increase in human activity is affecting the way the Himalayan monal lives and communicates, studies show.
Learn how brain scans during an attention test revealed blood flow differences in patients with lasting fatigue years after mild COVID.
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As an astronaut traverses the lunar South Pole, tribocharging from walking on the lunar surface and plasma charging from the ambient plasma generate electric charge on the spacesuit. This problem is...
Learn more about all the night sky activities set to take place in October 2026 and the best ways to view them.
NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is seeking Phase 1 proposals for the design and construction of the Aerospace Power Systems Laboratory. The principal purpose of this procurement is to...
<p class="rte-simple-html-paragraph">The 65 tools, appliances, and gadgets we’ve tested with the most potential to help you better enjoy your space.</p>
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Attacks grew more sophisticated and less predictable over the period, according to researchers who scanned more than 20 billion transactions.
<p class="rte-simple-html-paragraph">Crucibles of melted gold and silver point to a lost monastic powerhouse of early Christian Britain.</p>
<p class="rte-simple-html-paragraph">A dagger tip lodged in her vertebra survived five centuries, but the motive remains a mystery.</p>
Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have captured the clearest evidence yet that quark-gluon plasma, the scorching-hot matter that filled the newborn universe, behaves like a true liquid. By...
<p class="rte-simple-html-paragraph">The labyrinth beneath the Hagia Sophia keeps growing—and one “enigmatic” branch has no clear purpose.</p>
It will track how much carbon is being taken out of the atmosphere by the saltmarsh on the Solway Firth.
To really understand what’s going on in the Nebraska Sandhills, Shelly Kelly told me, it’s helpful to see it from the air. From the window of her father’s Bonanza A36, we looked out over the heart of...
US funding cuts caused sharp and lasting declines in HIV prevention, testing and treatment services at organizations serving some of the people most vulnerable to the virus in Uganda and Zimbabwe,...
Pollution was spilled into local rivers and protected sites, documents shared with the BBC suggest.
Nature, Published online: 06 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03177-xPreprints must not leak sensitive research information
Nature, Published online: 06 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03136-6Scientists are using cell-free transcription and translation systems to synthesize proteins, design biology-based sensors and...
Nature, Published online: 06 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03092-1Francis Halzen wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on a pioneering high-energy neutrino observatory at the South...
Nature, Published online: 06 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03130-yTwo reports highlight the changes needed in academia to facilitate the fast, collaborative, responsive and inclusive research...
Nature, Published online: 06 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03095-yNature reporter Davide Castelvecchi reflects on covering the fast-moving field of astronomy honoured by the Nobel physics...
Babylist CEO Jennifer Hyman discusses the company’s new 20,000-square-foot showroom in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood, which opened at the end of September and is its largest retail location yet....
Learn how 11 silver coins found beneath a former sports field were traced to a single Celtic hoard buried more than 2,000 years ago.
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<p class="rte-simple-html-paragraph">The infamous Donation of Constantine was a medieval deepfake, and 10 popes used it to expand their domain.</p>
<p class="rte-simple-html-paragraph">The case raises chilling questions about engineered pathogens and biodefense secrecy.</p>
<p class="rte-simple-html-paragraph">It’s one of the biggest hoards of its kind ever found in Germany, worth roughly six years of a Roman soldier’s savings.</p>
From wildfires to landslides to coral bleaching, past trends suggest what extreme weather the record El Niño will bring – but the world isn’t prepared
Pressing down on shin bones improved cognitive and motor symptoms in mice and pigs with traumatic brain injuries
At least 23 huge data centres are planned in Scotland, causing significant concern for campaigners.
The 2026 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has gone to Karl Deissorth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for the development of techniques for controlling genes with light
Cancer immunotherapy can lose its punch when tumor-fighting T cells become exhausted, but researchers may have found a way to keep them going longer. Scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer...
Mathematicians warn that pre-print service arXiv is so flooded with AI slop papers that it has become virtually unusable – but the service has struck back at "low-value" submissions with a new limit...
In the days and weeks after Hurricane Helene, people throughout western North Carolina and beyond found themselves thrust into new situations, forced to learn new skills to help themselves and their...
“It’s part of being human to fall short of that total acceptance and ultimate understanding — and often far short.” Being responsible for ourselves, knowing our own wants and meeting them, is...
NASA has selected the GIMLI project to investigate whether the Marius Hill Pit opens into a vast underground cave or lava tube. Using radar, seismic sensors, gravity measurements, and cameras,...
Nature, Published online: 05 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03094-zNature’s senior biology reporter Ewen Callaway reflects on today’s prize for optogenetics — which scientists have anticipated...
Nature, Published online: 05 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03185-xThree pioneers of optogenetics have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Plus, the funniest nature photography...
The brown Fiendyblobbu that is circulating around us is not too good, it's suggested that you do stay away from that, of course it's your own trip so be my guest
A new light-activated material can efficiently produce hydrogen from water without requiring an additional expensive metal catalyst. Researchers say its unusual sulfur-based chemistry could point...
Boulder, Colo., is hoping its novel lawsuit will be the environmental equivalent of the landmark litigation that produced billions in damages and settlements against Big Tobacco and opioid makers.
The moon in April, visible from NASA’s Orion spacecraft.
A National Trust manager says recent summers have "brought home" the impact of climate change.
The students will head to Florida to compete against university teams from Australia, India and the US.
Learn how the longest clinical trial of its kind found people who drank non-nutritive sweetened beverages lost as much wight over two years as those who drank water.