Science ‘storytelling’ urgently needed amid climate and biodiversity crisis. We study these ecosystems because we love them – but we are expected to be removed from our subjects. Scientists should ...

The Trump administration is waging a ‘wholesale assault on U.S. science’ that threatens the country’s health, economic development, national security and scientific preeminence. That's ...

The RSV Nuyina icebreaker is part-way though its first mission dedicated solely to marine science. Along with understanding the impacts of warmer waters in the Antarctic region, scientists have ...

Ekaterina Zaharieva is the European Union’s new commissioner for start-ups, research and innovation. After a long career in the Bulgarian government, including as justice minister, she took ...

The fierce debate about smartphones and adolescent mental health rests on conflicting science. Researchers and technology companies must work to improve it.

Apr. 3, 2025 — A switch of just two weeks from a traditional African diet to a Western diet causes inflammation, reduces the immune response to pathogens, and activates processes associated with ...

The American scientific community could soon be plagued by a brain drain, recent polling suggests. In a survey of U.S.-based scientists conducted by Nature, 75% of respondents said they were ...

Mar. 28, 2025 — Why do some plants thrive in specific regions but not in others? A study explores the factors shaping plant distributions and how these patterns have changed over millions of years.

The James Webb Space Telescope’s JADES survey recently observed a galaxy that shouldn’t be visible, because it existed only 300 million years after the Big Bang. At that point in cosmic ...

Ultra-processed foods tend to be energy-dense and soft, making them easy to overeat. Sam Dicken, a nutrition researcher, tries to avoid UPFs because he naturally has a big appetite. He shared how ...

When Aaron Leanhardt was a graduate student in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he was part of a research team that cooled sodium gas to the lowest temperature ever recorded ...

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