A Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.

Many academics are concerned about threats to independent enquiry in higher education. Here’s how it can be protected while taking legitimate concerns into account.

The tiny power sources, tested in pigs, dissolve inside the digestive tract after several months.

Affected Chinese companies adjusted their sources of knowledge to stay competitive.

Geophysical survey yields ‘tantalizing’ data that could point to Nefertiti’s burial place – but it’s too early to draw definitive conclusions.

Researchers detect more than 1,000 overlooked microproteins in human brain tissue, including some that are altered in Alzheimer’s disease.

The Paper2Agent system makes it easier for researchers to reproduce papers and understand work in unfamiliar fields, authors say.

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

Awards that celebrate humour, curiosity and irreverence are a balm in hard times.

A less sexist world would be much richer

Nearly half of all polarization research focuses on the United States, yet many American findings are global outliers. A globally equitable understanding requires bridging traditional social science w...

Researchers worry that generative AI is homogenizing culture and cognition.

Global warming is making high-altitude regions unstable, and could trigger more frequent landslides and floods.

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

Science sleuth’s findings raise questions for researchers working to improve the reliability of commercial antibodies.

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

Rather than racing to replace people, we should build AI tools that amplify human expertise and expand opportunity.

The figure, which is much higher than previous estimates of Large Language Model use, is for papers published in December and archived in PubMed

Many researchers are unaware of an upcoming law that will require them to register with a regulatory body, as is the case for engineers and healthcare professonals.

Robotic supports were once designed for clinical use, but researchers are now developing cheaper, smaller devices aimed at everyone — from people with ageing knees to 20-somethings seeking to climb mountains.

Analysis of neighbourhoods in more than 100 US cities finds no evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime.

Proposal to put political appointees in charge of research grants could be temporarily halted if lawmakers’ efforts are successful.

Trump administration takes action to address ‘forever students’.

Nature’s iconic front page uses inspiration, creativity and ingenuity to unite science and technology with art and design.

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

George Church moved to paper’s acknowledgements section, triggering exodus

Tool directs text-generation systems to remove constructions associated with artificial intelligence in research papers and grant proposals.

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

Dolly’s brush with celebrity could hold lessons for current discussions about reproductive technologies.

New leader of the National Academy of Sciences Neil Shubin warns: ‘a society that loses science loses the future’.

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

Coffee plants are critically endangered by climate change. Researchers are finding solutions to keep scientists supplied with their favourite discovery fuel.

Nature asks researchers whether scorching summers are the new norm for London, Paris and Berlin.

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

Wide-scale recordings reveal neurons in the human brain that encode fundamental components of language such as the grammatical relationships between words, their parts of speech and the...

Existing global efforts to reduce harms caused by smoking have targeted tobacco smoking, but vapes containing nicotine are also harmful.

Nature asked a football-journal chief about emerging trends in the sport, from AI tools to PhD students embedded with teams.

From sky to sea, and then back to the lab, here are the top images from Nature’s 2026 photo competition.

Unprecedented results against a stubbornly hard-to-treat cancer are boosting optimism that other challenging tumours will be next.

They learn to associate it with food

A huge study suggests ageing scientists are part of the problem

Registered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research.

The device helps muscle recovery in those receiving gene therapy for the rare neuromuscular condition.

An AI-led analysis of publicly available peer-review reports links requests for major revisions with papers that end up having high impact.

Pandemic report warns of growing global threat as health teams in Africa move to contain Ebola outbreak

Clinical trials for treatments against Ebola Bundibugyo virus are ‘in a strong position’ to be launched quickly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.