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As the annual phenomenon once again strikes East Asia, scientists are hard at work to better predict how they will affect people.

New results could help to end a long standing disagreement over the rate of cosmic expansion. But scientists say more measurements are needed.

Stanford University’s 2024 AI Index charts the meteoric rise of artificial-intelligence tools.

An exclusive analysis shows that economics and interdisciplinary teams get the attention of policymakers.

The agency’s head calls the current plan for delivering samples collected by the Perseverance rover “too expensive” and its schedule “unacceptable.”

A newly discovered ‘organelle’ that converts nitrogen gas into a useful form could pave the way for engineered plants that require less fertilizer.

The DIANA technique sparked excitement from neuroscientists. But two new papers have cast doubt over the results.

Computer scientist Avi Wigderson is known for clarifying the role of randomness in algorithms, and for studying their complexity.

The British physicist, who has died aged 94, predicted the existence of the Higgs boson in the 1960s.

The bioengineered immune players called CAR T cells last longer and work better if pumped up with a large dose of a protein that makes them resemble stem cells.

With voting about to start in India’s general election, some researchers are concerned that sluggish funding growth and slow decision-making processes could hold the country back.

A study of review reports identifies dozens of adjectives that could indicate text written with the help of chatbots.

Amateur and professional astronomers share with Nature what they observed and what data they collected when the Moon blocked the Sun.

Six-year ordeal for researchers studying Asiatic cheetah and Persian leopard ends in prisoner amnesty.

A virus that has killed hundreds of millions of birds has now infected cattle in six US states, but the threat to humans is currently low.

The Lula administration is trying to reverse lawmakers’ reductions, which are hitting scientists in the Amazon especially hard.

The confidential 124-page report from the University of Rochester, disclosed in a lawsuit, details the extent of Ranga Dias’s scientific misconduct.

The archive, saved from a garage, shows pioneer of forensic science Edmond Locard at work in his laboratory in Lyon, France.

Ten football pitches’ worth of forest were lost per minute in 2023, suggesting that countries are not doing enough to halt deforestation.

Revised policy says grant recipients must share manuscripts as preprints — and removes support for article-processing charges.