npj Viruses - Rage against the mean: a perspective on measuring fitness of individual phage particles

The research, published in Science Translational Medicine by Stanford Medicine, found that mRNA vaccines can provoke a two-step immune response. This process le...

World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness week is celebrated every year from the 18th to the 24th of November. The campaign is one of the World Health Organisations official campaigns and aims to raise awareness of AMR and promote global action to tackle the spread of drug resistant diseases.

This Perspective discusses the concept, mechanisms and evidence for memory in bacteria at individual and community levels.

Plant viruses are economically important pathogens causing serious crop losses, yet no effective or durable control measures exist despite growing genomic and ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries ...

On a tiny Italian island, scientists conducted a radical experiment to see if the bees were causing their wild cousins to decline

But public-health specialists worry that misinformation and funding cuts could affect vaccination rates.

npj Biodiversity - Italian still life paintings as a resource for reconstructing past Mediterranean aquatic biodiversity

This collection invites research on recent advances in technologies and AI for improving and monitoring animal health, behavior and well-being.

This Perspective discusses the application of ecological principles of macro-ecosystems to microbiome engineering. The authors propose research priorities necessary to facilitate the application of th...

When people viewed virtual avatars with coughs or rashes, their brains triggered an immune response.

This cross-journal collection aims to present recent advancements in remote sensing for forest monitoring and management.

npj Biodiversity - Unlocking the African bioeconomy and strengthening biodiversity conservation through genomics and bioinformatics

npj Viruses - Virion motility of sialoglycan-cleaving respiratory viruses

npj Biodiversity - Attenborough’s echidna rediscovered by combining Indigenous knowledge with camera-trapping

Manuscripts and specimens accumulated by the colonial East India Company lie at the roots of modern science and museums.

Five US-based researchers tell Nature why they are exploring career opportunities overseas.

Yellow warblers near busy roads become increasingly aggressive when traffic drowns out their territorial songs, and noise pollution could trigger fights.

Damage done to the skin can increase the risk of an allergic reaction in other organs.

“This would decimate American leadership in space.”…