SCIENCE
Five highlights from lung-cancer research
You have full access to this article via your institution. Even after a lung tumour has been surgically removed, many pa...
GDP and beyond: why treating nature as capital cannot save the planet
Humanity’s inability to manage natural resources is putting the world under strain. To end this free-for-all, some econo...
Global lung cancer burden shifting to middle-income countries
You have full access to this article via your institution. China — a country where more than 40% of men smoke — has beco...
Lung cancer in women emerges as a distinct disease
You have full access to this article via your institution. When Narjust Florez’s mother told her physicans that she had ...
Meet the biologists deciphering marine-mammal histories from baleen, whiskers and tusks
In March, Kathleen Hunt unpacked the first shipments of equipment and samples at her new laboratory at Oregon State Univ...
Memory on trial: the new science of when to trust eyewitness testimony
At dawn in late January 1998, two men entered the home of Betty Black in Farmers Branch, a suburb of Dallas, Texas. They...
Move over, AlphaFold: open source model predicts shape of 1 billion proteins
The known protein universe just got a lot bigger. A newly released artificial-intelligence tool has generated an atlas o...
Nests in an egg cell: structures of protein-storage units in oocytes
Before an embryo can use its own genes, it relies on materials that have been packed into the egg. This is a precarious ...
Never smoked? Good, but you could still get lung cancer
You have full access to this article via your institution. In July 2025, Lily Nguyen was arranging a vase of flowers at ...
Science takes on the world’s most lethal malignancy
You have full access to this article via your institution. A cancer diagnosis of any kind portends a rough road ahead, b...
Why Africa’s low rate of lung cancer is an illusion
You have full access to this article via your institution. When a 65-year-old woman in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, arrives a...
NASA to Announce Artemis III Crew, Provide Mission Progress Update
NASA will provide an update on the agency’s Artemis III mission and announce the astronauts assigned to the test flight ...