The world just lived through the 11 hottest years on record — what now?
The past 11 years have been the hottest on record, with 2025 being the second or third hottest…
Cancer blood tests are everywhere. Do they really work?
A man in a car looks down at his phone. “No cancer signal detected,” says a message on…
Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments
Literature research and evaluation We conducted a systematic and reproducible literature research and evaluation, adhering to standards of…
Pokémon turns 30 — how the fictional pocket monsters shaped science
Pokémon has been an inspiration for researchers since its creation 30 years ago.Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty On 27 February…
The age of animal experiments is waning. Where will science go next?
Last November, the UK government announced a bold plan to phase out animal testing in some areas of…
Coral microbiomes as reservoirs of unknown genomic and biosynthetic diversity
Eddy, T. D. et al. Global decline in capacity of coral reefs to provide ecosystem services. One Earth…
Scientists face fallout for past associations with Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender, cultivated ties with many scientists and other academics.Credit: Davide Bonaldo/Alamy Several scientists…
Laser writing in glass for dense, fast and efficient archival data storage
Key metrics We evaluate the Silica storage system against the following metrics: Voxel quality, Q = B/nV, is an average…
The political effects of X’s feed algorithm
Participants Participants in our experiment were recruited by YouGov—a professional online polling firm with a large panel of…
Is UK science in jeopardy? Huge funding reforms spark chaos and anxiety
Funding reforms could affect UK physicists’ collaborations at CERN, Europe’s particle-physics laboratory.Credit: CERN The United Kingdom’s researchers are…
Parkinson’s disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder
Participants In this study, we used 11 independent datasets comprising 863 total participants after quality control. These datasets…
A Cambrian soft-bodied biota after the first Phanerozoic mass extinction
Erwin, D. H. & Valentine, J. W. The Cambrian Explosion: The Construction of Animal Biodiversity (Roberts & Company,…