Nature, Published online: 22 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00206-7
An Austrian cow has shown that some bovines are intelligent enough to employ objects for their own ends.
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Canny cattle: at least one cow knows how to use tools
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‘Bodies like ours aren’t considered in academia’
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Hello, I’m Adam Levy, and this is Off limits: academia’s taboos, a podcast from Nature Careers. In this episode: excluded bodies.
Often, academia is portrayed as a purely cerebral field, one where the best and brightest brains…
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Largest ever ‘superposition’ pushes quantum boundary
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key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026
Membership at many of the high-level advisory coucils for the US National Institutes of Health is dwindling ― a decline that could trigger a freeze in issuance of some grants.Credit: Grandbrothers/Alamy
Crucial grant-review panels for more than…
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When two years of academic work vanished with a single click
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Within a couple of years of ChatGPT coming out, I had come to rely on the artificial-intelligence tool, for my work as a professor of plant sciences at the University of Cologne in Germany. Having signed up for OpenAI’s…
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What your breath says about the bacteria in your gut
Exhaled breath can have hundreds of different compounds in it, some of which could have diagnostic potential.Credit: Getty
The chemicals found in a person’s breath might reveal the identity of the microbes in their guts, according to a study…
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Cause of vision loss discovered in overlooked genes
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Non-protein-coding genes have been linked to a…
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Microplastic levels in the air have been overestimated, but are still a big concern
Microplastics are ubiquitous, but studies disagree on how much of the pollutants are in the atmosphere.Credit: Milos Bicanski/Getty
The amount of microplastic particles in the atmosphere might be lower than some studies have suggested, possibly…
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Cancer might protect against Alzheimer’s — this protein helps explain why
Amyloid plaques (light pink; artist’s illustration) speckle neurons in a brain affected by Alzheimer’s disease.Credit: Artur Plawgo/Science Photo Library
For decades, researchers have noted that cancer and Alzheimer’s disease are rarely…
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NIH ends support for some human fetal-tissue research – dismaying scientists
Research on fetal tissue (pictured, fetal neurons) from elective abortions will no longer be funded by the US National Institutes of Health. Credit: Riccardo Cassiani-Ingoni/Science Photo Library
The world’s largest public funder of biomedical…
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