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The research vessel Tarojoq is the biggest research investment by Greenland’s government to date.Credit: Alex Rivest
The streets of Nuuk, Greenland, were bustling in November — not from protests or military exercises, but from scientists who…

Guinea-Bissau will implement a universal birth-dose policy for the Hepatitis B vaccine in 2027.Credit: Enrique Lopez-Tapia/Nature Picture Library/Alamy
Public health authorities in Guinea-Bissau say that they have suspended a controversial…

British particle physicist Mark Thomson is director-general of CERN.Credit: CERN
Last month, Europe’s particle-physics laboratory, CERN, announced that it had secured private donations worth an unprecedented €860 million (US$1 billion)…

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US mathematician Gladys Mae West was best known for her foundational work on GPS systems. As an African American woman, West overcame huge barriers to contribute to this key technology. She was one of many women of her…

Nature, Published online: 23 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00235-2
Nature staff discuss some of the week’s top science news.

Scientists have just found a new way to track the uncontrolled reentry of falling space junk.
As they punch into the atmosphere, chunks of space debris create sonic booms that can be detected by ground-based instruments that are usually…

As if Neanderthals weren’t already mysterious enough, groundbreaking research adds a startling new layer to our understanding of their final days. It appears some populations lived in total…

Scientists may have solved a cosmic mystery that has been troubling them since the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began observations back in 2022.
When astronomers started looking back into the early days of the universe with the cutting-edge…

Most types of cancer have become less deadly over time in adults younger than age 50 in the U.S. but colon and rectum cancers continue to cost lives at alarming rates, according to a new report from the American Cancer Society. The data show that…