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.

Bacteria, viruses and fungi that colonize the body — including some that live directly on eye surfaces — can have an ...

The world needs a more agile framework for climate action, but that shouldn’t mean abandoning a system that has worked for 30 ...

Blending ‘old-fashioned’ logic systems with the neural networks that power large language models is one of the hottest trends ...

Using hydrogen to power road transportation and heat homes doesn’t save more carbon emissions than direct electrification.

The advent of artificial intelligence might be just the latest stage in a guiding biological process that has produced ever more complex, mutually dependent organisms over the history of life.

Authors submitting primary research articles to Nature have the option of publishing their research using either: 1 – Traditional subscription publishing model – an article is submitted and is ...

Biomimetics is an interdisciplinary field in which principles from engineering, chemistry and biology are applied to the synthesis of materials, synthetic systems or machines that have functions that ...

Gel-based device inspired by the cooling powers of milk assesses peppers whose burn ranges from mild to dangerous.

Universities have been working to implement more robust security systems, but specialists say that academic institutions need ...

Multiple lines of evidence suggest that pigeons sense magnetic fields by detecting electric currents in their inner ears.

Similarities to the womb and placenta of female mammals indicate a response to common evolutionary challenges in pregnancy.