Photon avalanching is a nonlinear optical effect in which a material emits a disproportionately large number—an ‘avalanche’—of photons when illuminated above a threshold intensity. Until ...

As was realized after the Second World War, peace and prosperity stem from partnership and sustained investment in human development ...

The scale of funding cuts in the United States means that countless scientists will lose their jobs. It would be naive not to start thinking about alternative career paths.

The US National Institutes of Health is still screening grants in process a judge ruled illegal last week. Plus, one researcher’s 40-year project to communicate with dolphins and a wake-up call ...

The cover shows a satellite image of circular patches of irrigated land in the Western Desert in Egypt. Such land reclamation is one of many strategies that ...

Browse the archive of articles on NatureImproving children’s health is central to the ‘Make America Healthy Again’ movement championed by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. But ...

Lukewarm efforts to get Britain to save on the energy bill, and a mysterious string of house-fly deaths, in our weekly dip into Nature ’s archive.

Many potential applications for artificial intelligence require making real-time decisions. Car racing, in which drivers must undertake complex tactical ...

To tackle the challenges facing society energy, water, climate, food, health scientists and social scientists must work together. Yet ...

Two papers published in this issue report on the third and final phase of The 1000 Genomes Project. Begun in 2008, the project has developed an open resource ...

In this week’s issue, John Martinis and his colleagues describe a significant step in the development of quantum computing. For the first time, the ...

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