Download the Nature Briefing Podcast 20 March 2026. In this episode: 00:22 Exploring how gut microorganisms contribute to ageing. Nature: Memory loss is fuelled by gut microbes in ...

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Scientists have identified the neurons that worsen the condition during stress. For people with eczema, stress can trigger ...

Muscle mass increased or remained stable relative to body weight in middle-aged mice and humans on GLP-1 drugs.

Compounds that are used to make plastics and personal-care products were found in all types of marine environment, a meta-analysis shows.

The metric called ‘biological age’ takes a person’s health into consideration, and therefore can be higher or lower than their chronological age. The pace at which a person’s biological age changes ...

Turing Award winners Gilles Brassard and Charles Bennett pioneered ideas that are now foundational to quantum computers and ...

UK government announces multibillion-pound science investments — but what impact will this have on the global race in these fields?

The powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR–Cas9 might offer a way to make safer, more effective cancer-fighting immune cells ...

Survey examines how often academics attempt jokes during conference talks — and how these attempts at comedy land.

It has long been known as the arbiter of reward in the brain, but recent findings could upend this classic theory of dopamine ...