US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has been critical of antidepressant drugs.Credit: Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Overdiagnosis, overmedication and withdrawal: that’s the bleak picture of US mental-health treatment painted at a Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) wellness summit attended by US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the driving force behind the MAHA movement….
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT 08 May 2026 People with a deadly form of pancreatic cancer survive longer on a drug that blocks the activity of a family of mutant proteins. Source link
Nature, Published online: 07 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01446-3 A method reveals that some local wild-meat markets share the same supply chains as global smuggling operations. Source link
Beyond GDP indicators include measures of air (pictured here in Shanghai).Credit: Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty The United Nations is considering 31 new indicators to “complement and go beyond” the world’s main measure of economic growth, gross domestic product (GDP). The proposed new annual indicators include economic metrics such as household disposable income per person, and environmental data such…
You have full access to this article via your institution. Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Credit: Claire Lamman/DESI collaboration Last month, a cosmology project completed its initial five-year mission to create the most detailed 3D map of the Universe so far….
Trinity Emily Seyl Univ. Chicago Press (2026) Many books describe how the first atomic bomb was built. But this history by Emily Seyl stands apart. It tells the story of the bomb’s Trinity test in New Mexico in July 1945 through restored photographs from the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s National Security Research Center, where Seyl…
Denver, Colorado In one of the highest-profile battles yet between the US research community and the administration of President Donald Trump, lawyers faced off in a Colorado courthouse yesterday over the future of a research centre that has been called the global ‘mothership’ of climate science. Trump team plans to break up ‘global mothership’ of…
You have full access to this article via your institution. It is one of the most memorable moments in natural-history film-making: two young mountain gorillas playing with the broadcaster David Attenborough in Rwanda, later joined by the gorillas’ watchful mother. Attenborough is in his element, quietly demolishing a widely held perception — bolstered over decades…
The Cutfoot Experimental Forest in Minnesota is near a research facility that could be closed as part of the US Forest Service’s reorganization.Credit: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post/Getty “Overwhelmed.” “Saddened.” “Crushed.” “Demoralized.” That’s how some former and current scientists at the US Forest Service feel as the agency weighs closing dozens of its research sites. The…
They’d warned me the mods were permanent, but being 25 years old and broke makes you agree to pretty much anything. The recruiter called it enhanced taste receptors. I called it a pay cheque. What they didn’t tell you is that once you can detect microbial toxins at six parts per billion, food stops being…