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Policies designed to keep women in the workforce could be entrenching gendered parenting roles.

How similar are vertebrate and invertebrate sleeping behaviours? An analysis of spiders offers insights about how sleep evolved.

Simulation shows that hesitating can be the difference between making it to safety and not.

Innovative polymer could give the manual toothbrush its first radical redesign in more than 1,000 years.

Astronomers spot an unprecedented double disk of debris around a dead star.

Information on the methodology used in the ranking for the 2026 Nature Spotlight: Neuroscience.

Genomes from thousands of ancient individuals show how migrations helped shape Celtic and Germanic languages — plus, how the brain may regulate emotions differently than we thought.

Parkinson’s disease might develop in the gut before reaching the brain, and the environment could have a crucial role in triggering the disease.

Self-driving lab in China requires only a simple prompt to encode messages in DNA and read them out.

It all adds up.

The duration of short ångström-wavelength X-ray pulses, which lasted merely 170 attoseconds, has finally been measured accurately. The optical system designed for precision pulse duration metrology can be used as a ‘stopwatch’ to measure the rapid motion of electrons inside atoms and molecules, too.

Some countries are introducing sweeping social-media bans for young people, but the impact of screen time is still under investigation.

Researchers hope that US lawmakers will push back against the Trump administration’s science policies — but there are limits to what Congress can do.

The disease is thought to be divided into two subtypes, depending on where it originates in the body — the gut or the brain.

Thousands of genome sequences identify human migrations that might have spread early forms of these tongues around Europe.

An AI system coordinates laboratory instruments to conduct multi-step molecular-biology experiments with limited human intervention.

Brains are resilient. Harnessing their self-protective mechanisms might help to prevent or slow the progression of this neurodegenerative condition.