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Newborn babies can anticipate rhythm in pieces of music, researchers have discovered, offering insights into a fundamental human trait.Babies in the womb begin to respond to…

A new batch of more than three million pages of investigative files about Jeffrey Epstein that was released by the Department of Justice on January 30…

On a recent trip to Lake Geneva in Switzerland, biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston witnessed the impact of one of the planet’s most potent invasive species, the…

The prophet Ezekiel once claimed to have seen four beasts emerge from a burning cloud, “sparkling like the colour of burnished brass”. Each had wings and…

Geoscientist Hiroto Nagai composed music about Earth’s climate system using meteorological data from the polar regions.Credit: K. R. AraragiWhen Colin Campbell stood before colleagues at a…

Writing by hand activates parts of the brain associated with learning that typing words does not.Credit: Three Lions/GettyCursive is making a comeback. The looping handwriting style…

Bio-tooth. These are ameloblasts — specialized epithelial cells crucial for the formation of tooth enamel. The cells secrete an enamel matrix that mineralizes over time to…

This week, a colleague received a spam email from an AI company—I won’t advertise it—that opened as follows: “[Company name] is working with a number of…

Nature, Published online: 30 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00322-4Nature staff discuss some of the week’s top science news.

The Met Office is to lean into one of Britain’s favourite pastimes – talking about the weather – by launching a new two-week forecast.At present, the…