Do your New Year resolutions include a plan to leave higher education? These researchers explain how to reinvent your career.

In ‘body-first’ Parkinson’s disease, misfolded proteins propagate from the gut’s nervous system to the brain. Immune-cell activity seems to play a key part in this spread.

It is one year since Donald Trump began his second term as president of the United States and, with grant cuts and staff reductions, these 12 months have seen some seismic changes in US science. In ...

The cover image shows a mosaic of arbitrarily arranged snapshots taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), each of which is centred on a distant galaxy containing a ‘little red dot’. First ...

Artificial-intelligence systems are feeding on Wikipedia without giving back, and academic indifference is threatening the survival of what is arguably the most widely used reference work on the ...

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A book about witches casts a spell, and arguments about whether blue-green algae should be called blue-green bacteria, in this week’s pick from the Nature archive.

Nearly 40% of new cancer cases worldwide are linked to things we can change, such as smoking. Plus, the NIH is rolling back red tape on some types of human research and the unexpected success of ice ...