Rich nations’ fixation on forests as climate offsets has resulted in the needs of those who live in or make a living from ...

Researchers frequently receive invitations to publish in journals that they might not have heard of. Nature asked two scientists how they would check whether a publication is legitimate.

The agency would have “the best scientific teams in each discipline — assuming risks, and therefore losses of capital when ...

Cheap data and the absence of coincidences make maths an ideal testing ground for AI-assisted discovery — but only humans ...

Researchers are striving to reverse-engineer artificial intelligence and scan the ‘brains’ of LLMs to see what they are doing ...

“Humans that are most attractive to the malaria mosquito have body odour or human scent signatures that are enriched for a ...

The cells generated by the very first division of the fertilized egg make a lopsided contribution to the body’s organs and ...

Technology that enables researchers to interpret brain signals could one day allow people to talk using only their thoughts.

“Unforgettable,” says Steph Yardley, a space physicist at Northumbria University in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. The auroras were ...

Climate change and deforestation have increased the frequency of blazes in the humid forests of West and Central Africa.

The US$665 million High Energy Photon Source (HEPS) outside Beijing puts China among only a handful of countries that have ...

A global, 16-year study 1 of 2.4 million people has found that Internet use might boost measures of well-being, such as life ...