- January 31, 2025
US drug agency approves potent painkiller — the first non-opioid in decades
Researchers have long sought potent, but non-addictive, painkillers as alternatives to opioids.Credit: Getty When Terp Vairin awoke from a 2023
Our remote fieldwork taught us how to band together as scientists
Victoria, Olivia and Justine (left to right) during one of their field sessions on Sable Island.Credit: Justine Ammendolia In 2023
70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
Social-media platform Bluesky has more than 27 million users.Credit: Peter Kováč/Alamy Seventy per cent of Nature readers who responded to
these emerging therapies could change women’s health
In late 2022, Naomi Busch, a lone physician in her book group, began fielding question after question about menopause. Members
AI-designed proteins tackle century-old problem — making snake antivenoms
Snake venom can cause paralysis, tissue damage and death.Credit: Ingo Schulz/imageBROKER via Getty Proteins designed using artificial intelligence (AI) can
‘I don’t think we’ve scratched the surface on systemic exclusion’
Lauren Esposito works with arachnids, including scorpions.Credit: California Acad. Sci. Changemakers This Nature Q&A series celebrates people who fight racism
Why a silly-sounding name suits the serious mission of our biotech spin-off
Get with the programme: a scene from TV comedy Silicon Valley, which helped Richard Kuo to navigate the start-up landscape.
former US president who dedicated his life after office to peace, human rights and global health
Credit: Mark Peterson/Corbis via Getty Jimmy Carter’s work in health, peace and diplomacy crossed decades, continents, boundaries and disciplines. After
Who built Europe’s first cities? Clues about the urban revolution emerge
The vase is tan with abstract designs in black: curved triangles that swoop into circles, a motif with an elegant,
‘Precocious’ early-career scientists with high citation counts proliferate
In 2023, more than 450 scientists who had begun publishing research only in the previous eight years were among the