The literature has failed to acknowledge many female researchers, especially those from marginalized backgrounds. But a new generation of historians is changing the narrative.

Our perceptions of the world are increasingly influenced by online media, which can perpetuate social stereotypes and bias our views. The rise of artificial intelligence — especially large language ...

Genetic variations affect biological processes and can drive disease, but deciphering the precise effects of DNA sequence changes remains a significant challenge. This is especially true when the ...

Tying knots in surgical sutures requires precise amounts of force — too little force and the sutured wound will gape and leak, too much and the wound will bloat and blood flow becomes restricted.

Artificial-intelligence systems are feeding on Wikipedia without giving back, and academic indifference is threatening the survival of what is arguably the most widely used reference work on the ...

From tree branches to blood vessels, physical networks are often thought of as one-dimensional wires connecting points. In this view, the need to keep the overall ‘wire length’ to a minimum is thought ...

Although it has been established that human-induced warming increases the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, there has not been a comprehensive analysis of historical events. In this ...

The cover shows birdcage evening primroses (Oenthera deltoides) flowering in Joshua Tree National Park, California. The seasonal rhythms of plant growth can vary substantially from place to place, and ...

One of the features that sets mammals apart from other vertebrates is their jaw — most jawed vertebrates have several bones in their lower jaw, but mammals have just one. The evolution of this jaw ...

Our ability to process information into complex emotions, behaviours and decisions relies on the rich diversity of cell types that make up the human brain. Uncovering the molecular and cellular events ...

The scanning electron micrograph on the cover, courtesy of Olivier Schwartz of the Pasteur Institute, shows HIV particles (pink pseudocolour) budding at the surface of an infected lymphocyte (blue).

Browse the archive of articles on Nature Author Correction: Rolling back human pluripotent stem cells to an eight-cell embryo-like stage Md. Abdul Mazid Carl Ward Miguel A. Esteban ...