Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades

Nature, Published online: 20 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02574-6The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

Nature, Published online: 20 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02574-6

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

Staggering 90% of biomedical papers now show signs of AI help

Nature, Published online: 20 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02551-zThe figure, which is much higher than previous estimates of Large Language Model use, is for papers published in December and archived in PubMed

Nature, Published online: 20 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02551-z

The figure, which is much higher than previous estimates of Large Language Model use, is for papers published in December and archived in PubMed

Researcher, heal thyself: meet the scientists studying their own diseases

Nature, Published online: 20 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02455-yStudying a condition after being diagnosed with it can be rewarding but also presents some ethical and psychological challenges.

Nature, Published online: 20 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02455-y

Studying a condition after being diagnosed with it can be rewarding but also presents some ethical and psychological challenges.

Daily briefing: People older than 100 have more cancer-killing cells

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…

Nature, Published online: 20 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02617-y

Killer 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 newborns might work.