Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.

Gift baskets, pizza handlers, $942-million software: Barry Lam on why bureaucracies never get smaller.

Since 2019, over a thousand warehouse campuses have popped up around the world. Each complex covers nearly 100,000 square meters, uses as much water as a small town, and as much electricity as a small...

A fossil from a previously undiscovered species with feathery limbs, unearthed in China, adds to evidence that dinosaurs and birds evolved flight more than once.

Structural studies support the idea that fibrillized tau protein, a feature of neurodegenerative disorders, acts as a prion-like template to induce misfolding in healthy tau.

Mouse experiments show that Alzheimer’s disease and corticobasal degeneration tau filaments retain their distinct structures during templated seeding, supporting strain-specific tau propagation a...

An AI revolution is sweeping through education. But teachers who can convey the excitement of thinking and learning are irreplaceable.

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

Take Nature’s quiz on female Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry or physiology or medicine.

Continuous monitoring and early identification of trends from Epic Research.

The share of adults diagnosed with shingles between 2019 and 2026 rose steeply with age, from about 7 per 10,000 among those born between 2006 and 2008 to 182 per 10,000 among those born between 1968 ...

The virus that causes chickenpox can reactivate during adulthood, causing the painful, itchy rash known as shingles.

A massive research program investigating causal links between the gut microbiome and autism sparked fierce pushback from scientific critics and advocacy groups.

Public schools are funded primarily from state and local governments. In the 2023–2024 school year, the most recent year of available data, about 45.8% of public school funding came from state sources...

Math and reading scores are in a decade-long slump. We asked three dozen experts: What could turn things around?

Tracking the biological age of grafted organs suggests that donor pools could be expanded to boost organ availability.

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

Learn what milk pasteurization is, how the process works, and why it helps improve safety and consistency without significantly changing milk’s nutrition.

The first fall runs of chinook salmon since the project in California and Oregon was completed have surpassed researchers’ expectations.

Most member nations spoke in support of the declaration, but some rich countries had strong objections.

Erica Heilman has a conversation with Steve Giroux about work ethic and class in this installment of "What Class Are You?"