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Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on optogenetics, which has revolutionized neuroscience.
Nature’s senior biology reporter Ewen Callaway reflects on today’s prize for optogenetics — which scientists have anticipated for years.
Twenty-five years after the US anthrax attacks, fears around AI are distracting people from seeing what’s needed to stay safe: a strong, regulated life-sciences sector.
Two books explore how warfare is being reshaped, with influence shifting from states to tech giants.
Outcomes have improved drastically in the United States for some forms of the disease, but those for others continue to lag.
Psychologist Mirta Galesic discusses an increase in hateful comments online, and the science-backed way to react.
A queue of men and women, techies and academics, moved inch by inch down a corridor towards a large door.
Advocates say that delivering lectures and presentations al fresco can energize students and provide them with a complete experience.
A fossil from a previously undiscovered species with feathery limbs, unearthed in China, adds to evidence that dinosaurs and birds evolved flight more than once.
Modified medication targets the cells implicated in the condition’s tell-tale lesions.
Researchers are trying everything they can to help coral reefs to survive severe heat stress from climate change, including playing sounds underwater.
Inhibitors of tyrosine kinase enzymes have been a cornerstone in precision cancer treatments. Now, targeted protein degraders could reshape therapeutic options.
Researchers quantify the economic damage caused by climate-change-related heat stress on the global workforce.
In your Career feature, a PhD student distressed by killing two or three mice daily asks for “suggestions for coping mechanisms” (see Nature https://doi.org/rp77; 2026). The advice includes “getting enough sleep, eating well, exercising” and memorializing the euthanized animals.
Funders, journals and universities must reward the creation of new scientific terrain, not just the efficient mining of old ground.
Digital technologies increasingly shape everyday life. Computer scientist Francine Berman tells Nature that stronger safeguards are required to protect the public interest.
Rabah Arezki and Grégoire Rota-Graziosi (Nature 655, 302–305; 2026) make a valuable point by arguing that intellectual property, alongside geology, shapes critical-mineral supply chains. Their proposal of a patent pool modelled on the Medicines Patent Pool deserves serious consideration.
Robert Braun proposes that artificial-intelligence use be reported when AI tools materially shaped a scholarly contribution (see Nature 657, 34–36; 2026). But authorship-contribution taxonomies might be too coarse for a growing form of AI use: sustained intellectual interaction.
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