More refined AI models, advancements in human gene editing and the continuing impact of the Trump Team on science — we run ...

Nuclear fusion. People on Mars. Artificial general intelligence. These are just some of the advances that could come by the ...

AI technologies need to be safe and transparent. There are few, if any, benefits from being outside efforts to achieve this.

Journals that work hard to meet the needs of both authors and readers should be acknowledged publicly — encouraging others to ...

Anecdotal stories suggesting that weight-loss drugs can help people shake long-standing addictions have been spreading fast ...

The team select some of their favourite stories from the past 12 months.

Gene regulation refers to the mechanisms that act to induce or repress the expression of a gene. These include structural and chemical changes to the genetic material, binding of proteins to specific ...

Nature Sustainability publishes significant original research from a broad range of natural, social and engineering fields about sustainability, its policy dimensions and possible solutions.

Spintronics is the use of a fundamental property of particles known as spin for information processing. In many ways, spintronics is analogous to electronics, which instead uses the electrical charge ...

Systems biology is the study of biological systems whose behaviour cannot be reduced to the linear sum of their parts’ functions. Systems biology does not necessarily involve large numbers of ...

Much of the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s non-climate portfolio will be dispersed, the White House says.

Although development of a jab for the H5N1 strain of avian flu is well under way, other strains are receiving less attention ...