The cover shows sunlight piercing Newgrange passage tomb in County Meath, Ireland, following the winter solstice. In this week’s issue, Daniel Bradley and his co-workers present a genomic exploration ...

Our perceptions of the world are increasingly influenced by online media, which can perpetuate social stereotypes and bias our views. The rise of artificial intelligence — especially large language ...

A Review of the impacts of short-lived halogens on air quality and climate identifies gaps in our knowledge of short-lived halogen emissions, chemistry, and the environmental and climate impacts.

Collaboration across institutes can train students in open, team science, which better prepares them for challenges to come, says Katherine Button.

Scientific discovery is essentially an iterative process, following the cycle of generating a hypothesis, designing an experiment to test that hypothesis and analysing the data collected. A key ...

Trillions of dollars are needed to prevent and protect against global warming. But who should pay? The world’s climate scientific advisory body could help countries to decide. At major ...

The cover shows a cross-sectional view of the interior of a meteorite recovered from the Mackay Glacier icefields during the 2005 field season of the Antarctic Search for Meteorites. To date only some ...

An El Niño is coming, models say, but Nature spoke to researchers about when and how we’ll know its intensity.

Genetic variations affect biological processes and can drive disease, but deciphering the precise effects of DNA sequence changes remains a significant challenge. This is especially true when the ...

Despite the weak agreement seen at the COP30 climate conference, Brazil was right to prioritize discussing the eventual phase-out of fossil fuels. Others must now help to find a way forward.

Over the past three decades, mobile DNA sequences called transposable elements have proliferated throughout the genome of Enterococcus faecium, an important bacterium behind infections in hospitalized ...

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