Conference
Reconstructing the human past: using ancient and modern genomics
EMBL Heidelberg and virtual
Sep 15, 2026
This EMBO-EMBL symposium joins population genetics, bioinformatics, microbiology, anthropology, archaeology, and history to study human variation, ancient pathogens, domestication, analytical methods, and ethics in paleogenomics.
PodcastPodcasts
Earthworks spotted in the Amazon hint at huge ancient civilization
Jul 29, 2026
Nature editors discuss nearly 400 structures that reveal the scale of the Aquiry civilization and tiny fossils of an early squid ancestor.
PodcastNeuroscience
Briefing Chat: Baby T. rex were killers from birth, suggest new fossils
Jul 24, 2026
Nature staff discuss evidence that young tyrannosaurs hunted from birth, the weapons used by ancient Egyptian princesses and London’s emerging role in artificial-intelligence safety.
PodcastNeuroscience
Briefing Chat: Sweet! Elusive sugar molecules found in space
Jul 17, 2026
Nature staff discuss the discovery of a four-carbon sugar molecule in interstellar space and a newly decoded formula that identifies a Maya mathematician.