The cover shows the moth Idalus iragorri, one of many insect species found at low to medium elevations in the eastern Andes. More than 70% of all insect species are found in the tropics, but the ...

One challenge that stems from the fundamental incompatibility between general relativity and quantum mechanics is that there is no consensus on a theory of quantum gravity. A way to potentially ...

As 2022 enters its final weeks, we look back on the past 12 months through the lens of Nature’s 10 — ten people who helped to shape science during the year. The cover takes its inspiration from the ...

When genes are read by ribosomes, stop codons act as punctuation, telling the ribosome when to halt protein synthesis. But in some protozoa, the base sequences that comprise stop codons can also ...

A simple celebratory post about completing my PhD went viral for all the wrong reasons. Here’s how I managed the backlash and used the attention to promote my research.

Indefinite data retention is neither financially nor practically possible, but there are ways to give your data maximal long-term value.

Antarctic ice cores hint that changes in the ocean might have played a larger part than have greenhouse gases in key climate shifts of the past three million years.

Superluminous supernovae are at least ten times brighter than their regular counterparts, but astronomers have remained in the dark about what exactly powers these phenomena. In this week’s issue, ...

A lack of data on economic outcomes hinders development and evaluation of public policy in many parts of the world. In this week’s issue, Marshall Burke and his colleagues show how satellite imagery ...

Adding nutrients to soil or removing grazing herbivores such as sheep reduces plant diversity in grasslands. In this week’s issue, Anu Eskelinen and her colleagues show that a key factor driving this ...

The cover illustration shows vacuolar-type adenosine triphosphatases (V-ATPases, large blue structures) on a synaptic vesicle from a nerve cell in the mammalian brain. V-ATPases pump protons across ...

Nature Index ‘Research Leaders’ survey also finds that scientists in North America and Europe are much more likely to say they intend to leave research.