Month: August 2026

Nature, Published online: 20 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02556-8Tests on uncrewed NASA mission showed garment could spare astronauts the worst effects of solar storms.

Nature, Published online: 20 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02612-3Promising trial results suggest cancer vaccines work and could be used to target other tumours.

Nature, Published online: 20 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02617-yKiller T cells might help people to live to extraordinarily old ages. Plus, the longest-lived brain organoids so far and how mass genome-screening programmes for n…

Beefy tracks point to a Cretaceous critter as big as a large dog or mountain lion

Nature, Published online: 20 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02553-xAdding albumin to popular antibody-based medicines helps to block their passage through the placenta.

Discovery of lymphatic tubes suggested new possibilities for bone healing, but challenge has prompted dueling papers and publication delay in prominent journal

Novel rescue craft unable to connect with doomed Swift Observatory

Nature, Published online: 20 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02549-7The approach could speed up investment decisions, but researchers say it has flaws.

First public presentation of studies on environmental factors touts rigorous science amid charged political climate

ChatGPT and other AIs use a flood of facts, and the occasional lie, to persuade humans