Bacteria-scale robots that can run for months without human control are no longer a lab fantasy. Researchers have now built ...

Biologists are confronting a problem they thought they had mostly solved: what, exactly, counts as life. A wave of ...

Pomegranates are high in antioxidants like anthocyanin and a distinct type called punicilagin. Learn how to get the most out of eating or juicing pomegranates.

This study provides an important assessment of how body size influences the occurrence of macro-organisms in urban areas across the globe. Size in most plants, but only some animal families, was ...

We are mindful that opinion is growing about whether this is caused by the eye itself or a new factor called type III ...

Knowable Magazine reports 2025 faced turmoil in U.S. science amid job cuts and budget slashes, yet saw advances in gene ...

A newly identified virus–cell hybrid structure allows viruses to spread faster and more aggressively by hitching a ride on migrating cells. Viruses rely on efficient movement between cells to ...

Scientists studying thousands of rats discovered that gut bacteria are shaped by both personal genetics and the genetics of ...

How the Cell's Internal Framework Shapes Brain Development Actin plays a central role in the cytoskeleton, the internal framework that gives cells structure and helps move materials inside them. In ...

Many everyday chemicals can damage beneficial gut bacteria and potentially fuel antibiotic resistance, prompting calls to ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...