Flasks have long been the fundamental piece of equipment for chemical syntheses and separations. In recent years, batch-reactor and flow-based systems have been created to run multistep processes ...

The Indus Waters Treaty withstood several armed conflicts and a huge loss of glaciers. It should serve as a blueprint for others.

A Go board depicted as a computer chip embedded on an integrated circuit board. The layout is taken from the final position of the historic Go game played on 5 October 2015 between Fan Hui (black ...

This document provides instructions on our online service for presubmission enquiries. Presubmission enquiries are provided purely as a service to authors (for example, to see if a manuscript is ...

Studying large populations can shed light on how factors such as genetics, environment and lifestyle influence the composition of the gut microbiome. But despite being home to nearly 85% of the ...

The cover shows a woman laying sprats out to dry in the sun near the shore of Lake Tanganyika in Kigoma, Tanzania. Sprats, like other small fish, provide livelihoods and access to healthy diets to ...

The detection and monitoring of asteroids is key to protecting Earth from impacts. Large bodies (1 kilometre or more) in the main asteroid belt are relatively easy to spot and monitor but smaller ...

In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission performed the remarkable feat of returning samples from the asteroid Bennu to Earth. Key to this effort was the careful containment of the samples, keeping them free ...

To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, Mangala Srinivas reminds junior colleagues that career success won’t protect you from gender-based bias.

A blend of chemistry and molecular-biology techniques are enabling archaeologists to mine ancient sediments for clues about the people who once lived there.

Artificial intelligence has taken on and beaten human competitors in many games, including chess, StarCraft and Gran Turismo. But such successes have largely been limited to board games or virtual ...

The cover shows an artistic rendition of the effects of mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. The five mass bleaching and mortality events experienced by the reef between 2016 ...