A small act of appreciation won’t solve the structural problems of academic life. But it can’t hurt.

In a bid to tackle a surge in submissions, conferences and journals focused on artificial intelligence are introducing caps ...

A tool called IdeaLens helps to judge whether concepts — rather than just writing — in scientific papers are artificially ...

Draft genomes generated using more affordable second-generation sequencing technologies could be assembled for a larger ...

Meaningful work, flexibility and job security all matter more than salaries do, Nature’s job satisfaction survey shows.

I refer to the mysterious jelly-like substance found lying about in open spaces … [I]t seems to have been suggested so early as 1667 … that the jelly consisted of the viscera of frogs … My father … ...

Now, anyone can prompt an AI model to construct complex computational pipelines that would otherwise require days or weeks of ...

Laureates share award that builds on the theories that contributed to governments intervening during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Running an AI tool locally does not avoid the energy costs associated with using a model. Even open-weight models — those with publicly available parameters — are trained in large, centralized ...

M.H. was a member of the IPCC from 1996 to 2002, is a signatory of the Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement (2021), the Great Barrington Declaration (2020) and the Oxford Declaration on Global ...

The same idea could be applied to research: preserving data now allows findings to be reassessed using better methods later. Building on existing data-retention requirements, funders should finance ...

Microbes can easily erode and weaken a plastic film, causing it to shed microscopic fragments into the culture liquid. This lost mass can be mistaken for biodegradation. But breaking a large piece of ...