UK government announces multibillion-pound science investments — but what impact will this have on the global race in these fields?

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.

Studying large populations can shed light on how factors such as genetics, environment and lifestyle influence the composition of the gut microbiome. But despite being home to nearly 85% of the ...

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

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.

Artificial intelligence has taken on and beaten human competitors in many games, including chess, StarCraft and Gran Turismo. But such successes have largely been limited to board games or virtual ...

A Go board depicted as a computer chip embedded on an integrated circuit board. The layout is taken from the final position of the historic Go game played on 5 October 2015 between Fan Hui (black ...

The cover shows an artistic rendition of the effects of mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. The five mass bleaching and mortality events experienced by the reef between 2016 ...

The US National Institutes of Health will now focus on ‘unsolicited’ research proposals driven by the interests of individual scientists. Plus, the oldest known recording of a whale’s song and how ...

Ageing is a degenerative process that leads to tissue dysfunction and death. At a molecular level, disruption to patterns of gene expression caused by the accumulation of epigenetic ‘noise’ has been ...

The cover shows an artist’s impression of SARS-CoV-2 in the bloodstream based on the latest cryo-EM images of the virus, with neutralizing antibodies (yellow) attaching to the spike protein on the ...

The cover shows an artist’s impression of a blue jet seen from the International Space Station. Blue jets are a form of lightning that travel from the tops of thunder clouds upwards into the ...