Lunar history The far side of the Moon is something of an enigma. Always facing away from Earth, its evolutionary history has remained as obscure as its appearance. That was, until last year, when ...

Brain–computer interfaces being trialled in China offer some advantages over Neuralink and other leading US devices.

The cover captures a close-up of a flower on the dog rose Rosa canina. There is something odd about the way the various species of dog rose reproduce — ...

Scientists are grappling with the connections between stress and health. Plus, the science that underlies escalating heatwaves and a rabies vaccine that can be spread through licks.

The scale of funding cuts in the United States means that countless scientists will lose their jobs. It would be naive not to start thinking about alternative career paths ...

As was realized after the Second World War, peace and prosperity stem from partnership and sustained investment in human development ...

Many potential applications for artificial intelligence require making real-time decisions. Car racing, in which drivers must undertake complex tactical ...

To tackle the challenges facing society energy, water, climate, food, health scientists and social scientists must work together. Yet ...

Photon avalanching is a nonlinear optical effect in which a material emits a disproportionately large number—an ‘avalanche’—of ...

Damaged seagrass meadow edge showing exposed rhizomes and roots that sequester carbon, stabilize the substratum and provide the foundational support for one ...

Any attempt to improve an object, idea or situation involves a mental search for possible changes. In this week’s issue, Gabrielle Adams, Benjamin ...

Two papers published in this issue report on the third and final phase of The 1000 Genomes Project. Begun in 2008, the project has developed an open resource ...