There is growing concern that AI can blunt memory and reasoning. But science shows ways to keep the brain sharp.

White House receives 340,000 comments on rules many fear would politicize science

Preprints don’t change much after peer review — and are rarely retracted.

An impeccably researched account describes how clinical trials have transformed health and social policy.

Mathematical texts from a Maya site in Guatemala identify an astronomer called Sak Tahn Waax.

Ambitious studies have been examining the protective effects of diet, exercise and socializing — with surprising results.

To anyone trained in the natural sciences, the phrase “evidence-based medicine”, which became popular in the 1990s, might sound peculiar. What else would medicine be based on if not evidence that a tr...

Potentially fraudulent papers often cite each other and could be inflating the impact factor of journals in which they are published.

Some say there’s a global crisis of trust — but research reveals where the real problems lie.

Some say there’s a global crisis of trust — but research reveals where the real problems lie.

Ethical discussions are urgently needed as genome-editing science advances, some researchers say.

Amid chaos in US science and geopolitical turmoil, Europe wants to position itself as a research haven — but questions about funding and innovation remain.

Par-delà les croyances, la démarche scientifique dit le vrai et propose du bien. Elle permet notamment de mieux vivre et de vivre plus vieux. Autant en profiter et se méfier autant de l'idéologie que de la toutologie.

Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.

Simon Kuper and Anjana Ahuja select their best mid-year reads

Biology has clever ways to mask the effects of potentially harmful gene mutations. Scientists are investigating how this ‘buffering’ works — and how to exploit it.

The UK's share of EU research funding is climbing, but lost networks will be harder to recover.

3:30pm Sat 20 Jun | John Burn-Murdoch, Helen Pearson, David Shukman | Ticket required

How do we know whether the things we do every day actually work? Why do so many practices in medicine, parenting, education, conservation, and public policy begin as intuition, authority, or anecdote ...

A new benchmark pitting AI against previously unseen maths problems shows that systems still fall short of top human expertise.

Our podcast on science and technology. In the second of two episodes on health misinformation, journalist and author Helen Pearson explains how to learn who to trust

Almost half of the scientists who responded said that they feel broadly negative towards artificial intelligence, but they think that some tools are better than others.

A conversation with Helen Pearson on her new book BEYOND BELIEF

Theories about how ice crystals grow in cooling liquids are wildly inaccurate when compared with experimental data, but studies are starting to illuminate the earliest moments in freezing.

A conversation with Helen Pearson on her new book BEYOND BELIEF

Who has made it to the finals in the ABSW Awards 2026?

3:30pm Sat 20 Jun | John Burn-Murdoch, Helen Pearson, David Shukman | Ticket required

Discover the strengths, limitations and risks associated with using artificial intelligence in your science job applications.

The technology can whip up spurious findings and pollute survey responses, but it could also make research more rigorous.

Women’s participation in science has risen sharply, but a Nature Index analysis finds that gender gaps in first and last authorship — markers of key scientific achievements — have barely shifted over the past decade.

An experiment with 2,520 participants backs Richard Feynman’s answer to every diner’s dilemma: do I want to try something new?

Contribution to a book arising from a symposium by the UK Office of Health Economics in 1978 in which Archie Cochrane wrote: “It is surely a great criticism of our ...

Scientists have long worried about the reliability of commercial antibodies, and the latest findings have sparked fresh concerns.

Science and society are undergoing rapid change. Nature wants to know how this is affecting careers, workplace culture and salaries.