The skull of King Richard III Carl Vivian/University of Leicester The oral microbiome of King Richard III of England has been assembled by investigating the plaque on his teeth, and suggests he had a disease that can destroy the jaw. In 2012, skeletal remains were discovered beneath a car park in Leicester, UK, on the…
Citations J.J. Mathews et al. Understanding dietary protein quality: Digestible indispensable amino acid scores and beyond, The Journal of Nutrition, posted July 15, 2025, doi: 10.1016/j.tjnut.2025.07.005 S.M. Forester, E.M. Reyes and D.K. Layman. Refining ounce-equivalents using the EAA-9 approach for protein scoring and dietary guidance, Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Vol. 125,…
October 8, 2025 3 min read Science behind Record-Breaking Everest Blizzard That Trapped Hundreds A blizzard that trapped hundreds of trekkers on Mount Everest was truly “off the charts,” experts explain By Stephanie Pappas edited by Jeanna Bryner Hundreds of trekkers were recently trapped on Mount Everest, which is shown here in a stock photo….
Oil companies are making only small investments in wind farms Associated Press/Alamy Leading oil and gas companies own less than 1.5 per cent of the world’s renewable power capacity – raising questions about how committed they are to the green energy transition, despite their public claims. Marcel Llavero Pasquina and Antonio Bontempi at the Autonomous…
Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like star. The Nobel-winning discovery, later published in the pages of Nature, was the culmination of centuries of dreaming, and decades of searching, for worlds beyond the Solar System. It was also the start of a…
Surgeons carrying out the pig liver transplant at the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, China, in May 2024 Xianfu Lu Transplanting organs from non-human animals into people could revolutionise medicine, potentially saving thousands of lives that are lost while people wait for organs. Scientists have previously experimented with giving people pig hearts and…
On Tuesday the field of quantum mechanics received a thoughtful 100th-birthday present from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: three shiny new medals, 11 million Swedish kronor (to be divided equally) and bragging rights for a theory that works at all scales. The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics went to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and…
Evidence increasingly suggests that the age of both parents, not just the mother, influences the health of children Halfpoint Images/Getty Images The risk of older fathers passing on disease-causing mutations to their children is higher than we thought. Genome sequencing has revealed that among men in their early thirties, around 1 in 50 sperm have…
October 8, 2025 3 min read Annual COVID Vaccines Protect People against Severe Disease, Even with Prior Immunity A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination By Sara Novak edited by Lauren J….
The South Pole-Aitken basin – the mostly blue area in the centre of this topographic map – is an impact crater about 2500 kilometres wide, overlaid by smaller impact craters NASA/GSFC/MIT The moon’s oldest and largest crater didn’t form in the way astronomers thought, according to a detailed analysis of its shape, which would rewrite…
