Browse the archive of articles on NatureEfforts by leaders of the US national academies to adjust to the new political reality have spurred member concerns about capitulation and censorship.

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 — ...

Browse the archive of articles on NatureResearchers have shown how Stone Age people might have canoed from Taiwan to Japan more than 30,000 years ago by doing it themselves. Plus, cancer cells can ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

In this week’s issue, John Martinis and his colleagues describe a significant step in the development of quantum computing. For the first time, the ...