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Henrietta Lacks’s descendant on her legacy – and Rebecca Skloot’s book
Rebecca Skloot told the story of Henrietta Lacks and how her cells were taken without her permission in a bestselling bo…
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Is district cooling the solution we need for extreme heat in cities?
Networks of pipes carrying chilled water have proven to be an efficient way to cool hospitals and universities. Now, the…
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First-of-kind Guillain-Barré drug switches off part of immune system
A treatment that turns off the bit of the immune system that goes haywire in Guillain-Barré syndrome may be the first ta…
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Job insecurity is chipping away at me and my cohort. Is it us, or the state of the economy?
Nature, Published online: 30 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01843-8The career market is difficult to navigate — and a…
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How I use statistics and my law degree to fight human-rights abuses
Nature, Published online: 30 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02079-2Some 50 years after exposing gender discrimination…
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Flat head syndrome discovered in Iron Age skeletons
Certain sleeping positions can lead to babies developing flattened heads, and an analysis of ancient skulls from Italy r…
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Why the most central law in cosmology may need to be broken
The cosmological principle is the foundation of modern cosmology – but its usefulness doesn’t necessarily make it true, …
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Spectacular fossil preserves internal organs of ancient marine reptile
A stunningly intact marine reptile named Austronaga minuta that lived around 245 million years ago may have looked like …
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Our verdict on Claire North’s space opera Slow Gods: a big thumbs-up
There was unusual consensus amongst New Scientist Book Club members about our read for July, with readers falling over t…
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Worry about what your children eat, but don’t forget your own diet
Measures like bans on advertising junk food to children are essential for instilling healthy eating at a young age, but …
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Retraction Note: Human HDAC6 senses valine abundancy to regulate DNA damage
Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10942-5Retraction Note: Human HDAC6 senses valine abundan…
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Earthworks spotted in the Amazon hint at huge ancient civilization
Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02367-xDiscovery of almost 400 structures may help to red…
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Lost civilisation in the Amazon may have numbered 3 million people
Laser-scanning surveys reveal that the ancient Aquiry civilisation was bigger than previously thought, building tens of …
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Jupiter’s deepest mysteries were hidden in shadow. Now we can see them
NASA researcher Heidi Becker has photographed sublime sights around Jupiter that have never been seen before, from its g…
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Pill that lowers oxygen levels in brain may ease Parkinson’s symptoms
A pill that induces hypoxia in the brain has been linked to improved symptoms of three neurodegenerative conditions when…
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Author Correction: A ductile solid electrolyte interphase for solid-state batteries
Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10945-2Author Correction: A ductile solid electrolyte int…
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Extraordinary ichthyosaur fossil shows its last meal was a pterosaur
The remains of an orca-sized ichthyosaur include evidence of what it ate – before it too got eaten by an even bigger mar…
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Papers with open peer-review reports are less likely to be retracted
Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02282-1Researchers say that transparent publishing practi…
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Editorial Expression of Concern: Carcinoma-produced factors activate myeloid cells through TLR2 to stimulate metastasis
Nature, Published online: 28 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10923-8Editorial Expression of Concern: Carcinoma-produce…
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Entangled dual-site migration via boracycle rearrangement
Nature, Published online: 28 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10931-8Entangled dual-site migration via boracycle rearra…
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Jaguar makes epic 2100-kilometre journey across the Amazon
A jaguar that has been dubbed Gaspar traversed 2100 kilometres of the Amazon, crossing farms and roads. But why he set o…
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An island has been waging a war on rats. They think they’ve finally won
Rats are a scourge on island wildlife all over the world. But an island off the coast of Ireland is showing how to succe…
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Matcha is under threat from climate change – can genomics save it?
Climate change is affecting the yields and flavour of the traditional Japanese tea matcha, but studying its seedlings' g…
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Asteroid strike caused global firestorm that incinerated the dinosaurs
After the Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago, trillions of tonnes of rock vapour was launched into space before falli…