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Microorganisms on a sample of asteroid are clearly terrestrial — despite strict protocols to avoid contamination.

Six years of observations show that play encourages group efforts and eases tension between adult chimpanzees.

Half a dozen drugs are in trials for conditions of the brain, but success is not guaranteed.

Venomous snakes kill tens of thousands of people each year. Treatments that are simpler to administer and more effective than conventional antivenom could curb this number.

Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg worried that choosing to have children during her graduate studies might signal a lack of career dedication.

AI-enabled research might cause immense harm if it is used to design pathogens with worrying new properties. To prevent this, we need better collaboration between governments, AI developers and experts in biosafety and biosecurity.

Synthetic protein agonists could boost T-cell biomanufacturing and therapeutic strategies.

A pall of smoke from burning cropland each year decreases rainfall in the annual monsoon.

The country’s research progress means its cities might lead in all Nature Index subjects within a decade.

Bites from insects infected with modified malaria parasites boosted immunity and stopped people from contracting the disease.

Can jets of drugs from pressurized capsules replace needles?

A transition-metal-free platform enables the formation of challenging C(sp³)–C(sp³) bonds in organic compounds via single-electron transfer, facilitating the coupling of functionalized fragments and expanding possibilities for efficient organic synthesis and reaction design.

Photocatalysis at 40–60 °C is shown to be able to defluorinate perfluoroalkyl substances, known as ‘forever chemicals’, allowing the recycling of fluorine in polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances as inorganic fluoride salt.

This article reviews evidence that has emerged over the past two decades indicating that herpes simplex encephalitis in children can result from monogenic defects of brain immunity to herpes simplex virus 1.