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The period of panic and unrest called the Great Fear was triggered by deliberately spread rumours, according to methods borrowed…

What decades of research can tell us about the causes of autism. Plus, a meticulous single-atom version of an iconic physics…

Fresh treatments shift the focus from symptom management to repair, and help children with skin conditions to live active lives.

Structures show how amino acid-sensing proteins bind to a key node in the nutrient-detection network.

Classifications drawn from outmoded concepts of race impede research and clinical practice.

Single-celled species that often stick together in colonies have researchers rethinking the origin of animals.

Genetic and anatomical data reveal how the human pelvis acquired its unique shape, enabling our ancestors to walk on two legs.

Research into the growing environmental problem of urban gullies highlights the challenging conditions under which many socially…

Demystifying itching, giving robots facial expressions, and other key studies and trials.

Today’s antibody therapies must be taken for life to avoid severe setbacks. Researchers are pushing for a more durable treatment.

The Great Fear of 1789, a wave of panic and unrest in rural France fuelled by the spreading of rumours, was an important moment…

The armoured ankylosaurian dinosaurs are best known from Late Cretaceous Northern Hemisphere ecosystems, but their early…

Bipedalism is a human-defining trait1–3. It is made possible by the familiar, bowl-shaped pelvis, whose short, wide iliac blades…

Generative models cover various application areas, including image and video synthesis, natural language processing and molecular…

Chemical feedback is ubiquitous in physiology but is challenging to study without perturbing basal functions. One example is…

Our knowledge of the brain processes that govern vision is largely derived from studying primates, whose hierarchically organized…

The mechanical properties of metallic materials often degrade under harsh cryogenic conditions, posing challenges for…

Haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) reside in specialized microenvironments, referred to as niches, and the classical model suggests…

Terrestrial plant communities show great variation in their annual rhythms of growth, or seasonal phenology1,2. The geographical…

Many chirality-sensitive light–matter interactions are governed by chiral electron dynamics. Therefore, the development of…