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Doctors and the NHS could be sued for medical negligence over mistakes made by artificial intelligence tools used in diagnosing patients and suggesting their treatment, ministers…

On reading the latest column in your long-running series (Lawnmower hum: why the sound of the summer could cost you £5,000, 27 May), I noticed that…

By rolling back a bedrock climate legal determination, the Trump administration has undercut its attacks on a groundbreaking state climate accountability law, green groups have argued…

Tech companies and industrial agriculture are “playing with the food system” by using AI and algorithms to undermine farmers in choosing what the world eats, leading…

NHS England is to trial a combination of AI and robot-assisted care to speed up the detection and diagnosis of lung cancer, the UK’s most lethal…

Nature, Published online: 23 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00235-2Nature staff discuss some of the week’s top science news.

Nature, Published online: 22 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00206-7An Austrian cow has shown that some bovines are intelligent enough to employ objects for their own ends.

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…

My parents first came to the United States in the 1970s to flee the cruelty and violence of Haiti’s dictator, François Duvalier, or “Papa Doc” as…

Almost three in 10 GPs in the UK are using AI tools such as ChatGPT in consultations with patients, even though it could lead to them…