Health
30 Oct 2025
Scientists on ‘urgent’ quest to explain consciousness as AI gathers pace
As AI—and the ethical debate surrounding it—accelerates, scientists argue that understanding consciousness is now more urgent than ever.
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Life sciences
29 Oct 2025
Underwater robot ‘Lassie’ discovers remarkable icefish nests during search for Shackleton’s lost ship off Antarctica
In a remote part of Antarctica's Western Weddell Sea, an area once hidden beneath a 200-metre-thick ice shelf, scientists have uncovered a new and unusual phenomena: extensive maintained fish nesting grounds arranged in patterns.
Health
23 Oct 2025
Drug which stops tumors' blood supply could help kids with bone cancer live longer
Children with multi-metastatic Ewing’s sarcoma face very poor survival rates — now an early trial of pazopanib shows promise for helping them live longer, healthier lives
Health
21 Oct 2025
This is how happy we need to be to have lower chronic disease mortality risk
Researchers used data from 123 countries to identify a ‘happiness threshold’ beyond which nations’ non-communicable disease mortality rate decreases, making happiness a public health resource
Neuroscience
20 Oct 2025
Do animals fall for optical illusions? What fish and birds can teach us about perception
Dr Maria Santacà describes how not only how fish and birds perceive their worlds, but also how ecological pressures shape the evolution of perception.
Life sciences
16 Oct 2025
Sniffer dogs tested in real-world scenarios reveal need for wider access to explosives, study finds
Access to range of explosives to train with would boost performance of detection dogs, suggests first validating study
Life sciences
15 Oct 2025
World’s largest rays may be diving to extreme depths to build mental maps of vast oceans
Oceanic manta rays may dive many hundreds of meters deep – far deeper than once thought – for navigation and orientation after leaving coastal waters, find researchers who tracked mantas across the globe
Social science
09 Oct 2025
How food upcycling and vertical gardening could help fight food insecurity: five articles you won’t want to miss this World Food Day
For World Food Day, we’re highlighting hot-off-the-press research aiming to prevent food waste and foster food security.
Health
07 Oct 2025
AI and omics unlock personalized drugs and RNA therapies for heart disease
Reducing industrial animal use can help to shrink our carbon footprint and boost health—but doing so means we need nutritious meat alternatives that are also tasty and affordable.
Neuroscience
07 Oct 2025
Instructions help you remember something better than emotions or a good night’s sleep
Scientists find that words you’ve been told to recall are better remembered than words with negative emotional connotations — but surprisingly, sleeping doesn’t help.
Health
02 Oct 2025
Death toll from drugs has more than doubled worldwide over past three decades
Researchers used new statistical methods to analyze public data on the global health burden due to drug addiction. They showed that drug-related mortality has increased 2.2-fold between 1990 and 2021, especially in high-income countries, despite a 6% reduction in cases after correcting for population growth. This surge in the public health burden from drugs was greatest in the US, and likely due to the combination of opioids and cocaine and worsening social and healthcare conditions for drug users.
Health
30 Sep 2025
Mix insect, plant, and cultivated proteins for healthier, greener, tastier food, say experts
Reducing industrial animal use can help to shrink our carbon footprint and boost health—but doing so means we need nutritious meat alternatives that are also tasty and affordable.
Health
26 Sep 2025
Protecting the protectors: as measles cases surge, how can we help healthcare workers get vaccinated?
Measles infections are on the rise, due partly to falling vaccination rates — and because of their work, healthcare workers and those around them are particularly vulnerable. In a new Frontiers in Public Health article, Nikki Heinze and her colleagues talk to healthcare workers in a London hospital to understand the factors that encourage or discourage measles vaccination. In this editorial, Heinze explores those factors, and calls for action to improve immunity screening, raise awareness, and support healthcare workers who want to be vaccinated.
Health
17 Sep 2025
People on Ozempic who eat to regulate emotions less likely to lose weight
Scientists studying people taking GLP-1 receptor agonists like Ozempic found that those who experienced emotional eating were less likely to lose clinically significant weight.
Earth science
11 Sep 2025
Newly dated 85-million-year-old dino eggs could improve understanding of Cretaceous climate
Scientists date dinosaur eggs that had laid buried in rock for millions of years for the first time, using new, ‘atomic clock for fossils’ method