Three key factors help to show whether a study’s results can be trusted: reproducibility (the same conclusion can be derived using the study’s methods and data), replication (the study’s conclusions ...

With 2023 drawing to a close, we look back on the past 12 months through the lens of Nature’s 10 — ten people who helped to shape science during the year. The cover takes its inspiration from one of ...

To mark International Women’s Day, Nature asked winners of its awards programmes to nominate a colleague who brings out the best in them.

One challenge that stems from the fundamental incompatibility between general relativity and quantum mechanics is that there is no consensus on a theory of quantum gravity. A way to potentially ...

The cover shows an artist’s impression of a human and their canine companion near a settlement in Ice Age Switzerland. Dogs have been companions for humans for millennia. They were the first animal to ...

When genes are read by ribosomes, stop codons act as punctuation, telling the ribosome when to halt protein synthesis. But in some protozoa, the base sequences that comprise stop codons can also ...

The cover shows an artist’s impression of the rich ecosystem that existed in parts of northern Greenland some 2 million years ago. The ecosystem is reconstructed from ancient DNA in this week’s issue ...

A suggestion that mutant insects could detect narcotics or explosive substances, and how ash seeds feature a screw propeller, in this week’s pick from the Nature archive.

The cover shows clonal raider ants (Ooceraea biroi) tending to pupae and small larvae. Ants are social insects, and their colonies are complex biological systems with sophisticated communication, ...

Adding nutrients to soil or removing grazing herbivores such as sheep reduces plant diversity in grasslands. In this week’s issue, Anu Eskelinen and her colleagues show that a key factor driving this ...

Genomes of red junglefowl, the wild birds that gave rise to domestic chickens, include genetic material from their farmyard cousins.

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