The astronauts will fly by the far side of the Moon in the coming days, taking in views never seen by the human eye.

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

Record-breaking experiment shows that a cluster of thousands of atoms can act like a wave as well as a particle.

More than half of Gen Z now have a side gig. Are researchers among those seeking a second income?

Discoveries in Jurassic rocks reveal that birds were adept fliers earlier than scientists realized.

KJ Muldoon is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025.

Bibliophile Andrew Robinson reveals 10 essential science reads from the past year.

Planned megaconstellations would contaminate the view of the cosmos of four orbiting telescopes

Having placed artificial intelligence at the centre of its own economic strategy, China is driving efforts to create an international system to govern the technology’s use.

With the US government absent from the COP30 global climate summit, it will be up to others to avert catastrophe.

In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.

Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. Can harnessing this molecular cross talk help in creating better crops?

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Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi pioneered the creation of metal-organic frameworks, which can capture and store molecules such as carbon dioxide.

John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis discovered quantum physics on a macroscopic scale, paving the way for quantum computing.

In 1985, experiments revealed the quantum behaviour of a macroscopic degree of freedom: the phase difference across a Josephson junction. The authors recount the history of this milestone for the development of superconducting quantum circuits.

Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi discovered cells that protect the body from autoimmune diseases.

The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits.

More students than ever are studying across international borders, but where and what they learn is shifting.

An analysis of Swift’s interviews suggests her speech pattern has changed over her career.

RFK Jr has vowed to find out what’s responsible, but scientists say he is ignoring answers from decades of research.

Fans of the global social-media platform explain how best to harness its career-boosting and collaboration potential.

Scientists used AI to write coherent viral genomes, using them to synthesize bacteriophages capable of killing resistant strains of bacteria.

The annual awards are a celebration of weird but thought-provoking science.

Ultrasonic calls, too high for the human ear to detect, convey a wealth of information across the rodent’s territory.

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The rest of the world is not following the US government’s dangerous path, and will stick with the technology that helped the world out of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Data reveal how this year’s back-to-back heatwaves are affecting populations and economies across Europe.

One version of the gpt-oss large language model can run on a laptop, and performs nearly as well as the company’s most powerful models.

A smudge of light spotted by the James Webb telescope near Alpha Centauri A could be the planet with the tightest orbit ever to be imaged directly.

It has taken the United Nations nearly 40 years to commission another study on the effects of nuclear conflict. Better late than never.

More than two-thirds of people polled had witnessed sexual harassment or assault on the ice.

For the first time, large language models performed on a par with gold medallists in the International Mathematical Olympiad.

Gavi, the vaccine provider for the world’s poorest people, needs an extra US$3 billion to protect infants and other vulnerable groups. More donors must step up.

For some parents, finding a cure for their child’s illness is the ultimate motivation to start a company.

Paper output varies between disciplines, as does the trend after tenure is achieved.

Nature - The Langlands programme has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up new worlds for them to explore.

The latest version of the chatbot, developed by start-up Moonshot AI, is open for researchers to build on.

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Researchers assessed more than 1,000 results from fruit-fly immunity research published between 1959 and 2011. The majority of findings look verifiable.