Read the Reviews & Analysis articles from Nature. A body fossil of a thorny-headed worm (Acanthocephala) has been dated to the Jurassic period, about 165 million years ago.

At industrial scales, chemical reactions are typically driven by applying continuous heat to the reactants. In this week’s issue, Liangbing Hu and his ...

Photon avalanching is a nonlinear optical effect in which a material emits a disproportionately large number—an ‘avalanche’—of photons when illuminated above a threshold intensity. Until ...

Ageing is a degenerative process that leads to tissue dysfunction and death. At a molecular level, disruption to patterns of gene expression caused by the ...

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 ...

There are two main approaches to developing artificial general intelligence. One is rooted in neuroscience, and attempts to construct circuits that closely ...

Root-associated microbial symbionts have a strong influence over the way forest ecosystems function. The identity of the symbionts can help determine how ...

The ubiquity of the optical laser means that it is easy to overlook its elder sibling, the maser. Essentially a 'microwave laser', the maser was ...

The diagnostics, treatment and five-year survival rates for bladder cancer are largely unchanged since the 1990s. Research into cancer genomics, risk factors and immune therapies could hold the ...

The exact place and time of Homo sapiens’ emergence remains obscure because the fossil record is scanty and the chronological age of many ...

The cover shows how the detection of skin cancer could be simplified and extended by using artificial intelligence. Andre Esteva et al. used 129,450 clinical ...

Malignant germ cells with loss of heterozygosity undergoing apoptosis. Tumours formed from germ cells those cells that develop in the embryo to become the ...