- May 17, 2026
US biology lab locked down for more than a week amid smuggling inquiry
A lab at the University of Indiana Bloomington is under scrutiny from the US Department of Agriculture.Credit: Michael Hickey/Getty Biologists
Mental-health research is too often invisible — it is time to change that
You have full access to this article via your institution. The outcomes of mental-health research do not always reach those
Hantavirus outbreak exposes uncertainty about how disease spreads
Passengers disembarked from the MV Hondius at the Canary Islands wearing personal protective equipment.Credit: Chris McGrath/Getty Close to 150 passengers
Celebrating David Attenborough at 100
Conservation is a never-ending journey, Attenborough underscores in an episode of Life on Earth: “The fact is that no species
How much of the scientific literature is generated by AI?
Research papers are increasingly being written by artificial intelligence.Credit: Yagi Studio/Getty How much of the scientific literature is generated by
This organoid can menstruate — and shows how tissue can repair itself
Gynaecological disorders such as endometriosis could be studied using endometrium organoids.Credit: fizkes/Shutterstock Researchers have developed organoids that can regenerate like
Intrinsic polar vortex crystals in A-site layer-ordered perovskites
Fert, A., Reyren, N. & Cros, V. Magnetic skyrmions: advances in physics and potential applications. Nat. Rev. Mater. 2, 17031
The memory dealer of Old Jeddah
The holographic minaret of Al-Shafi’i drilled the Adhan straight into the mastoid bone behind my ear. A neural vibration, not
We need to talk about failure in science
You have full access to this article via your institution. A failed experiment shouldn’t mean the end of a project,
What does the future hold for the thawing Arctic?
Unfrozen: The Fight for the Future of the Arctic Mia Bennett & Klaus Dodds Yale Univ. Press (2025) From the