Nature Medicine

Nature Medicine features original research articles that cover a spectrum of topics, from foundational discoveries with significant relevance to disease mechanisms and treatments to the initial stages of human clinical studies. The journal is dedicated to keeping both Ph.D. and M.D. readers updated on diverse biomedical research breakthroughs. It showcases the latest findings across various fields, including cancer biology, vascular biology, neuroscience, inflammatory diseases, infectious diseases, and metabolic disorders, among others. Additionally, the journal includes Reviews, Perspectives, and other specially commissioned pieces that provide context and clarity to these research advancements. The News section also highlights the most recent progress in drug research and development.

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Which programming language should I use? A guide for early-career researchers

2 days ago | nature.com | Jeffrey Perkel

Each year, the code-sharing platform GitHub releases its ‘State of the Octoverse’ report, which among other things ranks the popularity of programming languages. The latest report, released in October 2024, had some good news for pythonistas, as Python programmers are called: for the first time in ten years, the language JavaScript had been bumped from the top of the leader board and replaced by Python.
‘Dark matter’, 'Big Bang' and ‘spin’: how physics terms can confuse researchers

2 days ago | nature.com | Zeeya Merali

Listen to episode 3 of What's in a nameCategorizing things is central to science. And there are dozens of systems scientists have created to name everything from the trenches on the sea bed to the stars in the sky. But names have consequences. What’s in a name is a series exploring naming in science and how names impact the world.
Exclusive: a Nature analysis signals the beginnings of a US science brain drain

2 days ago | nature.com | Jack Leeming

Researchers in the United States are seeking career opportunities abroad as President Donald Trump’s administration slashes science funding and workforce numbers, finds an analysis of Nature’s jobs-board data. Data from the Nature Careers global science jobs platform show that US scientists submitted 32% more applications for jobs abroad between January and March 2025 than during the same period in 2024. At the same time, the number of US-based users browsing jobs abroad increased by 35%.
Career pathways, part 17 - Nature Metabolism

4 days ago | nature.com | Leah A Gates |Benjamin Weaver

Leah Gates and Ben Weaver reflect on how overcoming different hurdles and dealing with unexpected events has ultimately shaped their careers. They also emphasize the importance of relying on a strong support network.
The variability of Antarctic dense water overflows can be observed from space - Communications Earth & Environment

4 days ago | nature.com | Matthis Auger |Paul Spence |Adele K. Morrison

AbstractAround the margins of Antarctica, dense waters formed on the continental shelf are exported to oceanic depths. This overflow of dense waters to the abyss ventilates the ocean, and is vital to the global overturning circulation.
Brand-new colour created by tricking human eyes with laser

6 days ago | nature.com | Elizabeth Gibney

Five people have been able to perceive a colour never before seen by human eyes, after researchers used lasers and tracking technology to selectively activate certain cells in their retinas. The blue-greenish hue has an intensity, or ‘saturation’, outside the natural range of colours seen by humans. The work is “amazing technically” and an “extraordinary achievement”, says Kimberly Jameson, a colour-vision scientist at the University of California, Irvine.
‘Totally broken’: how Trump 2.0 has paralysed work at US science agencies

1 week ago | nature.com | Dan Garisto |Jeff Tollefson

As the administration of President Donald Trump continues its campaign to reshape the US government with spending cuts and mass lay-offs, some scientists still employed at government agencies say that their work has become impossible.
Sowing solutions: my quest to save Kenya’s maize from a devastating invader

1 week ago | nature.com | Linda Nordling

“I’m a plant pathologist at the Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Organization in Machakos, east of Nairobi. For more than a decade, I’ve been working on a sustainable way to control Striga, a parasitic weed that damages farmers’ crops here in Kenya. This photo, taken in January this year, shows me holding a Striga plant in a maize field in western Kenya, where Striga infested 73% of farms in 2009. It steals nutrients through the crops’ roots, sometimes destroying entire harvests.
India to begin construction of gravitational wave project

1 week ago | nature.com | Subhra Priyadarshini

After nearly a decade of planning, lobbying, and fine-tuning, the Indian government has greenlit the full-scale construction of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory-India (LIGO-India), a world-class gravitational wave observatory. With a formal tender for civil and vacuum works issued this week and a ₹1600 crore (~$190 million USD) construction budget now unlocked, India’s contribution to the global hunt for gravitational waves is shifting from blueprints to brick and steel.
Structured evaluation processes are associated with higher levels of employee belonging - Scientific Reports

1 week ago | nature.com | A. Chyei Vinluan |Austin Smith |Edward H. Chang

AbstractIn both a field study (N = 28,064) and a preregistered vignette experiment (N = 800), we find that more perceived structure in evaluation processes is associated with higher levels of belonging for employees. More structured evaluation processes increase perceptions of procedural justice and of genuine commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion—both of which are tied to a greater sense of belonging.