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Researchers are looking to improve how ageing is measured, but the field is plagued with uncertainties.

Study of more than 100,000 people supports your parents’ advice: eat your veggies.

Study finds genetic imprints in three generations of Syrian refugees. Researchers urge caution in interpreting findings and call for replication.

Two journals embarked on efforts to compensate reviewers, with different results.

US researchers who must forage for their own salary by finding grants fear they will be the first to go as federal research dollars disappear.

Many firms are misusing the ‘open source’ label. The scientific community, which relies on transparency and replicability, must resist this trend.

More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

Much of the Trump administration’s agenda for research is laid out in the 900-plus-page blueprint. Nature read it so you don’t have to.

Learning how to influence the way people see me when I enter a room has been key to boosting my confidence in job interviews.

A huge study paints the most detailed picture yet of the toll pregnancy and childbirth take on the body. Plus, scientists have discovered a new antibiotic in a lab technician’s garden and artificial intelligence tools are making their way into the process of peer review — to some researchers’ dismay.

US science partnerships are on thin ice as geopolitical tensions soar.

Thousands of 3D protein structures locked up in big-pharma vaults will be used to create a new AI tool that won’t be open to academics.

Antimicrobial molecule discovered in soil from lab technician’s garden — plus, a huge study assessing the nuances of humans’ impacts on biodiversity.

A newfound ability to produce an antibiotic helped a strain of antibiotic-resistant bacteria to take over a hospital.

As the early Earth solidified, gravitational segregation of dense, iron-rich melts drove mantle evolution, injecting geochemical signatures of shallow silicate fractionation into the deep mantle and inevitably forming a basal magma ocean.

The tumour-suppressor protein BRCA2 is discovered to have a previously undescribed role in maintaining genomic integrity and the sensitivity of PARP1 inhibitors.

Physiological temperatures augment activation of glutamate receptors, which enables the structural basis of neuronal excitation to be elucidated.

Systematic base-editing and computational screens identify specific cysteine residues on VPS35 in the retromer complex as key sensors that decrease mitochondrial translation in response to reactive oxygen species signals.

Exome sequencing of 851 trios from more than 2,500 individuals finds 187 genes with de novo mutations that contribute to meningomyelocele (spina bifida) and highlights critical pathways required for neural tube closure.