RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT 19 August 2026 Female treefrogs select less carefully when hearing a chorus of males. The dating advice of there are ‘plenty more fish in the sea’ is often not helpful — especially, it seems, for frogs. Claire Hemingway at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and her colleagues studied the mating choices of
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People who live to 110 years and older have large populations of a rare type of immune cell that can kill cancer1, finds a study published today in Cell Reports. It is possible that such cells, called killer T cells, might help people to live to extraordinarily long ages by fighting off cancer — although
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Data Ice mass variability was quantified using GRACE and GRACE-FO gravimetry data50 spanning 2003–2024. SMB (precipitation minus meltwater runoff, sublimation, evaporation and wind erosion) outputs from RACMO2.4p1 (ref. 51) and MARv3.14 (refs. 52,53) were used to link precipitation variability to observed ice mass changes. Precipitation variability was assessed using several independent datasets, including ERA5 (ref.
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David Fajgenbaum discovered how to repurpose a drug to treat his own rare disease and has dedicated much of his career to repurposing drugs. Credit: Noam Galai/Getty Images for Clinton Global Initiative As a child, molecular biologist Francesca Granata had episodes of skin pain so excruciating that she could not bear even a hug from
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Western Europe got its first hint of an unusual summer in May 2026, when a heat dome produced exceptional temperatures that shattered records in several countries. Remarkable as it was, that early heat wave turned out to be only the opening salvo. By mid-August, Europeans were sweating through their fifth heat wave of the season,
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The US National Science Foundation has been a major funder of basic science in the United States. Credit: Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo/Alamy The US National Science Foundation (NSF) will award about 30% fewer new research grants this fiscal year than in the last one, Nature has learnt. The steep drop continues a pattern that began last
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