Insects help pollinate plants, recycle nutrients, and sustain food webs. Recent estimates suggest that many of the estimated ...

Finding practical ways to analyse the state of a person’s immune system could guide treatment decisions and create ...

His research drew global attention earlier this year after a journalist cited it as supporting evidence to claim that ...

Misplaced or borrowed laboratory equipment can bring experiments to a halt. Scientists explain how they stop essential kit ...

Regulatory pushback stalled the field. But researchers are optimistic about mind-altering drugs as potential treatments for ...

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Thus, AI companies should treat watermarking as shared infrastructure. They should adopt interoperable standards and submit systems to independent testing. Audit methods, benchmarks and results should ...

Nature recently reported that the preprint server arXiv is banning papers that contain references hallucinated by artificial-intelligence tools (see Nature 653, 988–989; 2026 ). Scientists continue to ...

Your news article on the rising number of Asian and African PhD students in China ( Nature 2026) highlights an important trend but overlooks a complementary pathway: short-term visiting programmes, ...

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to 101 people. Women have won it less often than have men with those common. Elinor Ostrom (2009), Esther ...