Photon avalanching is a nonlinear optical effect in which a material emits a disproportionately large number—an ‘avalanche’—of ...

Climate change is arguably the scientific and societal issue of our age. Unless drastic action is taken, Earth is likely to exceed 3 °C of warming by ...

The ability to track neural activity as the brain develops in embryos is key to understanding how neurons self-assemble to form the vertebrate brain. In this ...

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Browse the archive of articles on Nature. Improving children’s health is central to the ‘Make America Healthy Again’ movement championed by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The cover shows a satellite image of circular patches of irrigated land in the Western Desert in Egypt. Such land reclamation is one of many strategies that ...

Experiments in which systems of interacting electrons are split apart reveal the signatures of a liquid-like state — even for as few as three electrons. Technologies that can interpret imagery ...

Damaged seagrass meadow edge showing exposed rhizomes and roots that sequester carbon, stabilize the substratum and provide the foundational support for one ...

Many potential applications for artificial intelligence require making real-time decisions. Car racing, in which drivers must undertake complex tactical ...

In this week’s issue, John Martinis and his colleagues describe a significant step in the development of quantum computing. For the first time, the ...

A coated ‘dirty diamond, created when a microinclusion-bearing fibrous coat is overgrown on a monocrystalline clear diamond. Most of the ...

Naked mole rats are remarkable in combining extreme longevity with virtually complete resistance to cancer. Now a novel glycosaminoglycan variant that may ...