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The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, has long been described as one of Earth’s great climate engines: a vast ocean conveyor that moves warm...

Cancer’s deadliest move is often not the growth of the original tumor, but its ability to travel. Metastasis, the spread of malignant cells from a...

For a blue mussel, eating can be a dangerous business. The animal survives by filtering seawater through its body, extracting microscopic algae and other particles...

A new study reports a way to switch on strong light–matter coupling inside a semiconductor terahertz cavity almost instantaneously, opening a path toward optical devices...

A new strategy for building carbon–carbon bonds could give synthetic chemists a more precise way to modify one of the most common structural motifs in...

Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, remains one of the world’s most persistent neglected tropical diseases, despite decades of mass drug administration and major reductions...

Citizen science is moving into one of biology’s most complex frontiers: the human microbiome, the vast community of bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses and other microscopic...

A new generation of light-controlled medical electronics could make temporary neural interfaces less invasive and easier to control. In a study published in Nature Electronics,...

Dopamine has long been cast as the brain’s “motivation molecule,” a chemical messenger that helps shape reward, learning, movement and the effort people are willing...

A new study published in Nature Communications reports that sepsis-associated acute kidney injury, one of the most dangerous complications of severe infection, is not a...

Glioblastoma’s Next Target: Why Precision Drugs Are Still Struggling to Defeat the Brain’s Most Aggressive Cancer Glioblastoma remains the most lethal primary brain tumour in...

Parkinson’s disease may be entering a new era of prediction, in which the earliest clues to a patient’s future are found not inside a brain...

A common bladder infection may be prompting a much bigger medical question than doctors once assumed. A nationwide population-based study published in the British Journal...

Light could soon become more than a carrier of data. In a new study published in Light: Science & Applications, researchers report an on-chip, non-volatile,...

The liver has long been viewed as a broadly similar organ in men and women, with differences often attributed mainly to reproductive biology. A new...