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Epileptic seizures nearly vanish after people receive experimental gene therapy in their brains

A clinical trial in three people tested a combination of gene-laden viruses and a drug.

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Policies designed to keep women in the workforce could be entrenching gendered parenting roles.

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Toothbrush zaps bacteria with electricity made when bristles move

Innovative polymer could give the manual toothbrush its first radical redesign in more than 1,000 years.

Elizabeth Gibney
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Tracing the spread of Celtic languages using ancient genomics

Genome-wide data from 4,587 ancient individuals are analysed, focusing on Bronze and Iron Age Europe, to test the extent to which alternative archaeological and linguistic models for the origin and spread of Celtic fit reconstructed demographic histories.

Hugh McColl
Guus Kroonen
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Daily briefing: See a tardigrade shed its skin

Enjoy the month’s best science images. Plus, an outbreak of anthrax in African hippos and the places where biodiversity drops after humans leave.

Flora Graham
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  Males of a Drosophila species that thrives on a particular fruit need the smell of food to begin courtship. This environmental cue acts on defined mating circuits in the brain.
  
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A two-dimensional reticular triaxial molecularly woven fabric

A two-dimensional reticular triaxial woven network material is constructed by incorporating C₃-symmetric macrocycles into a triangular weave pattern, enabling an extra topological dimension to be used for the construction of functional materials.

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In vivo CAR-T double knockout screen maps synergistic antitumour gene pairs

Using high-throughput in vivo CAR-T double knockout screening, synergistic gene combinations to improve CAR-T cell therapy are revealed.

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Epileptic seizures nearly vanish after people receive experimental gene therapy in their brains

The surprising reason women in academia do more parenting than men

Toothbrush zaps bacteria with electricity made when bristles move

Tracing the spread of Celtic languages using ancient genomics

Daily briefing: See a tardigrade shed its skin

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The surprising reason women in academia do more parenting than men

Toothbrush zaps bacteria with electricity made when bristles move

AI agents run this automated biology lab that sequences DNA and more

‘Historic change’: what the 2026 US mid-term election results mean for science

Rise of Germanic and Celtic languages is written in ancient DNA

Ecosystems depend on people: don’t abandon them

See a tardigrade shed its skin — October’s best science images

Latest Reviews & Analysis

Spider snooze stages

X-ray stopwatch can measure durations of just attoseconds

AI agents enter the ‘wet lab’

Fruit, flies and getting frisky: how food odours trigger sexual arousal

Cutting-edge technique uncovers how the spine’s shock absorbers bear load

A death sentence for ‘sloppy’ cancers

Faint exoplanets detected using computational approach to remove glare from stars

People’s social networks can be unintentionally reshaped during randomized interventions

Infrared image detectors grown directly on read-out chips

Latest Research articles

Opportunistically Detecting Signs of Hypertension on a Consumer Smartwatch

Hydrogen Derivatives Enable Cost-Effective Carbon Neutrality in China

Carbon radical generation by irreversible metal-to-ligand charge transfer

A two-dimensional reticular triaxial molecularly woven fabric

In vivo CAR-T double knockout screen maps synergistic antitumour gene pairs

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