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Scientists discover a real-life “dragon” and name it after Syrax
Scientists discovered a small, yellowish mountain horned dragon in Thailand and named it Acanthosaura syrax after a dragon from House of the Dragon. Found only …
Gut bacteria may unlock a hidden benefit of vegetables
Gut bacteria can transform nitrate and plant-based iron from vegetables and other foods into protective molecules that may benefit the heart and metabolism. In experimental …
Daily briefing: How ‘thunderquakes’ probe underground geology
Nature, Published online: 24 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02665-4Thunder generates acoustic waves that can help scientists probe Earth, a person’s own mitochondria have been injected into their …
Billion-dollar machine aims to set a fusion-energy record — and study nuclear …
Nature, Published online: 24 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02620-3Pacific Fusion is breaking ground next door to a US nuclear-weapons laboratory, hoping the partnership will give it an …
Can AI ever be conscious? The question stems from a misconception
Nature, Published online: 24 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02571-9A book outlines how the fields of artificial intelligence, psychology and philosophy have neglected a key aspect of consciousness: …
Frontier-technology markets are too narrow — here’s how to widen them
Nature, Published online: 24 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02572-8Governments need to keep their procurement processes as open as possible, or they will face risks of technological lock-in …
The exoskeletons are coming (to a store near you)
Nature, Published online: 24 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02641-yTechnology to help people walk, run and jump is moving rapidly from labs to hiking trails.
Patient’s own mitochondria injected into eyes in attempt to restore vision
Nature, Published online: 24 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02616-zInjection of a person’s own mitochondria into the retina was safe but had only a temporary effect on restoring …
A major Alzheimer’s risk gene may shrink brain cells years before symptoms
Researchers have uncovered a possible reason why the Alzheimer’s risk gene APOE4 can disrupt the brain long before memory problems begin. In mice, APOE4 increased …
Scientists left this farm field alone. Thousands of orchids appeared
An abandoned farm field became a flourishing wildflower meadow within little more than a decade, with plant diversity doubling and thousands of orchids appearing naturally. …
The dental crown of the future could be 3D-printed while you wait
Researchers have found a way to slash the processing time for 3D-printed zirconia crowns from as much as 100 hours to under 30 minutes. The …
Physicists create a tiny “Big Bang” with surprisingly small atomic nuclei
Researchers at CERN have created microscopic versions of the early Universe by colliding surprisingly small atomic nuclei at nearly the speed of light. The collisions …
A hidden “on switch” in human DNA has finally been decoded
Researchers have used AI to uncover the DNA signature of a key genetic “switch” involved in turning genes on. After analyzing about 500,000 DNA sequences, …
Experimental compound helps burn fat without muscle loss
A decades-old compound may point to a new way of treating obesity by making the body burn more energy rather than simply reducing appetite. In …
Scientists turn tiny “defects” into a 5.5x heat transfer boost
Scientists have developed an ultrathin coating that could dramatically improve how efficiently heat is transferred during condensation. By turning tiny polymer structures once considered “defects” …
Cannabis use linked to 37% higher stroke risk in massive study
A massive analysis involving more than 100 million people has found strong links between recreational drug use and stroke, including among younger adults. Cocaine was …
This common vitamin was linked to 13% better cognitive scores
Older adults with mild cognitive impairment and sleep problems who took at least 5,000 IU of vitamin D daily scored more than 13% higher on …
Black holes keep tearing these stars apart, but they survive
Astronomers have found stars that repeatedly skim past supermassive black holes, surviving each encounter while producing a new burst of light. In some systems, those …
This shark can live 400 years. Its eyes barely seem to age
Greenland sharks may live for 400 years without suffering the kind of retinal decline normally associated with aging. Researchers found healthy eye tissue and active …
Quitting alcohol may prime the brain for relapse
Mice that developed compulsive drinking after alcohol abstinence showed more than double the activity in a brain region associated with stress and addiction. Because the …
Peppermint oil lowers blood pressure in just 20 days
Peppermint oil may have an unexpected benefit for people with mildly high blood pressure. Adults who took a small dose twice daily for 20 days …
Exercise may work better for keeping weight off than losing it
Exercise may not be a powerful weight-loss tool on its own, but it appears to play a much bigger role in preventing lost weight from …
Multilingual people may have brains up to 13 years younger
People who speak several languages may have brains that age more slowly, with four-language speakers showing brains that appeared about 13 years younger than those …
This frozen fiber makes light and sound interact 1,000x more strongly
Freezing the liquid core of an optical fiber produced an extreme environment where light and sound interact more than 1,000 times more strongly than in …
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