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The prime minister’s spokesperson is right that “only by using a combination of reform, investment and efficiency, can we hope to turn the tide on the…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Anthropic has said the Pentagon’s designation of the…

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.Better known as Deinococcus radiodurans, this microbe is…

The US government has amplified anti-vaccine rhetoric and signaled that it does not consider measles to be a priority, which could have global ramifications as countries…

How will children and their families be affected by the government’s overhaul of special educational needs and disabilities (Send) provision in England’s schools? That will depend…

“The flood waters are only good for scavenger species,” says Steve Hussey, searching hard for a silver lining to last week’s deluges brought by Storm Chandra.…

Wang, H. et al. Scientific discovery in the age of artificial intelligence. Nature 620, 47–60 (2023).Article  ADS  PubMed  Google Scholar  Hopfield, J. J. Neural networks and…

Amid intensifying protests in Iran, the world’s richest man has weighed in.On January 4, Elon Musk, the multi-billionaire owner of social media platform X, responded to…

Joseph Curatolo was studying architecture four years ago when he took a summer job, teaching music to middle school students. When he told them he might…

Nature, Published online: 31 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03982-wA model quantifies the environmental footprint of wearable health-care electronics and identifies strategies to reduce their environmental toll.