Protected areas, such as national parks and nature reserves, form part of a strategy to preserve biodiversity, but how effective they are within and outside their boundaries is not always clear. In ...

A simple celebratory post about completing my PhD went viral for all the wrong reasons. Here’s how I managed the backlash and used the attention to promote my research.

As 2022 enters its final weeks, 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 the ...

Antarctic ice cores hint that changes in the ocean might have played a larger part than have greenhouse gases in key climate shifts of the past three million years.

The past few decades have seen exponential growth in the volume of new scientific and technological knowledge. But, as Russell Funk and his colleagues reveal in this week’s issue, this increase in ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

Indefinite data retention is neither financially nor practically possible, but there are ways to give your data maximal long-term value.

Nature Index ‘Research Leaders’ survey also finds that scientists in North America and Europe are much more likely to say they intend to leave research.

Browse the archive of articles on Nature Author Correction: Healthy forests safeguard traditional wild meat food systems in Amazonia André Pinassi Antunes Pedro de Araujo Lima Constantino Hani R. El ...

The flow of sediment across deserts, through rivers or along coasts transports vast quantities of granular material over huge distances. Understanding the mechanics of this movement has a wide range ...