Researchers say that using artificial-intelligence tools to visualize scientific images can become problematic when models misrepresent the underlying data.

A jury weighs in on whether a latecomer is simply using their time efficiently or disrespecting their colleagues.

The ability to learn and apply rules lies at the heart of cognition. In a seminal study, Marcus et al. (1999) reported that 7-month-old infants learned abstract rules over syllable sequences and were...

In this study, Luppi et al. systematically characterized and modeled more than 6,000 features of neural activity during anesthesia. They reveal a shared but reversible dynamical endpoint of anesthesia...

Their makers claim they can detect dozens of cancer types — but some scientists say they could be missing many cancers or delivering the wrong diagnosis.

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Using a genome-wide CRISPR screen, the authors demonstrate that excess cysteine drives mitochondrial iron accumulation and iron–sulfur cluster failure, triggering a distinct iron-dependent cell death ...

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

OpenAI beat humans to solving the Navier-Stokes problem, but mathematicians say the AI's solution isn't telling them much.

Scientists are poking holes in established ideas about how cells live and die, and are harnessing these discoveries to fight diseases from cancer to autoimmune conditions.

Researchers are racing to culture a menagerie of exotic organisms and finding lots of surprises along the way.

The capacity to self-evaluate and control one’s own cognitive performance, known as metacognition, underpins adaptive learning, social behaviours and self-belief. Stephen Fleming outlines our current…

Union members at 200-year-old medical journal vote overwhelmingly to walk out over stagnating pay

Lab-grown organoids wire into mice missing a key part of their brain, offering a new way to test drugs for developmental conditions.

Voyaging gut-derived immune cells ‘remember’ past stomach infections in mice.

Scientists are probing whether language models trained on historical data can reproduce creative breakthroughs.

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

The company says it has cracked the physics of fluids using AI, solving one of the toughest puzzles in mathematics.

Hundreds of millions of people have long-term conditions as a result of an infection. Researchers are working out how to help them.

Fear of a possible ‘negative’ leap second is accelerating plans to abolish the adjustment.

Researchers worry that generative AI is homogenizing culture and cognition.

Technologies that promise better-than-usual sleep could improve people’s performance and health but also turn the need for rest into an auditable obligation. Ethical norms and regulations are needed.

The country singer was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities.

Models of how the brain changes over time could help researchers to understand how diseases affect the organ later in life.

Scientists and publishers are testing a new breed of software that promises impressive accuracy at spotting AI-written text.

Our summer reading list includes books on the Human Brain Project, the neuroscience of motherhood and the career of a Huntington’s disease researcher.

From intelligent ships to clues about eclipses, Homer’s The Odyssey reveals how Bronze Age Greeks understood the world.

Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals

Peptide injections are the hottest trend in wellness. Researchers say enthusiasm for these unregulated drugs has got ahead of the science.

Nature talks to five artists about their approaches to communicating science visually.

Amid funding cuts and political barriers, researchers are asking whether the campaign can ever succeed, and what to do next.

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods — such as octopuses and squid — have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to them for insights into how intelligence evolved.

Disagreement in neuroscience runs deeper than most researchers suspect—even in electrophysiology, a field that prides itself on hard data.

The United Kingdom is gaining influence through its growing AI-safety ecosystem.

Susumu Tonegawa, a renowned MIT professor of biology and neuroscience and a Nobel laureate, has died at the age of 86. His discovery of how the immune system generates many different antibodies earned...

Researchers are racing to regrow the thymus, an ephemeral immune organ, in the hope that it will slow ageing.

A 1992 PNAS paper showed how birdsong upregulates the expression of an immediate early gene in bird forebrains.

A handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high cholesterol to a rare muscular disorder.

Omar Yaghi’s move comes amid cuts to US science and a campaign in China to recruit top international talent.