NSF moves to overhaul funding approach in line with White House priorities
The US National Science Foundation might cut back on its core research grants in favour of those driven…
OpenAI claims huge maths breakthrough on a famed ‘Millennium Problem’
The motion of fluids is described by the Navier–Stokes equations, the focus of one of the thorniest problems…
Revealed: inside the US military’s plan to tap huge sums from the NIH
Scientists work in a laboratory at the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which could lose research…
Rising stars of mathematics awarded prestigious 2026 Fields Medal
The four Fields Medal recipients are, from left to right, Hong Wang, Jacob Tsimerman, John Pardon and Yu…
Brown bullhead catfish melanoma represents a novel transmissible cancer
Blazer, V. S., Shaw, C. H., Smith, C. R., Emerson, P. & Jones, T. Malignant melanoma of brown…
‘Explosive diarrhoea’ outbreak grips US: how researchers are hunting its source
The diarrhoea-causing parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis reproduces through egg-like structures called oocysts (stained orange in this microscope image).Credit: CDC/DPDx…
Food systems transformation would reshape global agriculture
Crippa, M. et al. Food systems are responsible for a third of global anthropogenic GHG emissions. Nat. Food…
Tech titans are hacking their bodies for a longer life: is there science behind their methods?
In 2019, entrepreneur Bryan Johnson began to experiment on himself by taking daily injections of rapamycin. This immunosuppressant…
Should nicotine be regulated like a narcotic? A Pacific nation makes the case
The Republic of Palau has already banned vapes.Credit: Golden_Brown/Getty More than a billion people are dependent on nicotine…
A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone
Woodward, S. P. A Manual of the Mollusca; or, Rudimentary Treatise of Recent and Fossil Shells (Weale, 1854).…
World-first: therapy to make cells young again given to a person
Scientists are attempting to rejuvenate cells in the optic nerve (nerve fibres in red), which channels information from…
White House proposes vast overhaul of US science funding: what you need to know
President Trump’s administration has proposed wide-ranging changes to the system for awarding federal research grants.Credit: Anna Rose Layden/Getty…