How big tech is building a military–industrial complex in the age of AI
Two books explore how warfare is being reshaped, with influence shifting from states to tech giants.
Nature AI4 min read
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The top cancer success stories of the past 50 years, by the numbers
Outcomes have improved drastically in the United States for some forms of the disease, but those for others continue to lag.
Nature AI2 min read
How to respond to hate speech without fuelling it further
Psychologist Mirta Galesic discusses an increase in hateful comments online, and the science-backed way to react.
Nature AI3 min read
Von Neumann’s party
A queue of men and women, techies and academics, moved inch by inch down a corridor towards a large door.
Nature AI3 min read
Can we have class outside? Seven tips to breeze through outdoor lectures
Advocates say that delivering lectures and presentations al fresco can energize students and provide them with a complete experience.
Nature AI3 min read
Stunning fossil shows dinosaurs' distinctive path to flight
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.
Nature AI3 min read
Shifting from knowledge retrieval to evidence exploration and synthesis
Biomedical discovery has entered an era in which the limiting resource is no longer data, but our ability to integrate and interpret evidence. DeepEvidence, a new deep research agent, goes beyond retrieving facts and constructs explicit representations of scientific evidence.
Nature Machine Intelligence2 min read
Large language models discover complementary heuristics for combinatorial optimization
Combinatorial optimization (CO) underpins decision-making across science, engineering and industry, especially manufacturing, logistics, healthcare operations and energy management.
Nature Machine Intelligence9 min read
The 'missed disease' that affects 190 million: endometriosis drug shows early promise
Modified medication targets the cells implicated in the condition’s tell-tale lesions.
Nature AI2 min read
Towards foundation-style models for energy-frontier heterogeneous neutrino detectors via self-supervised pretraining
Accelerator-based neutrino physics is entering an energy-frontier regime in which interactions reach the tera-electronvolt scale and produce exceptionally dense, overlapping detector signatures.
Nature Machine Intelligence51 min read
The super El Niño is cooking coral reefs — can lullabies and probiotics save them?
Researchers are trying everything they can to help coral reefs to survive severe heat stress from climate change, including playing sounds underwater.
Nature AI6 min read
Bio-inspired airborne robot makes soft water landing, converts to autonomous sailboat
Mother Nature spent millions of years perfecting the maple seed’s gentle spiral to the forest...
Interesting Engineering - Robotics3 min read
A new chapter in targeting kinase enzymes in cancer
Inhibitors of tyrosine kinase enzymes have been a cornerstone in precision cancer treatments. Now, targeted protein degraders could reshape therapeutic options.
Nature AI3 min read
The cost of lost labour on a warming planet
Researchers quantify the economic damage caused by climate-change-related heat stress on the global workforce.
Nature AI3 min read
PhD training should encourage ethical dissent
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.
Nature AI3 min read
AI can widen science — but only if institutions stop rewarding the already measurable
Funders, journals and universities must reward the creation of new scientific terrain, not just the efficient mining of old ground.
Nature AI3 min read
How to put people first in cyberspace
Digital technologies increasingly shape everyday life. Computer scientist Francine Berman tells Nature that stronger safeguards are required to protect the public interest.
Nature AI4 min read
Patents alone won’t unlock critical-mineral supply chains
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.
Nature AI2 min read
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