One of Jupiter’s biggest moons has the potential to harbour life in a subsurface sea. The nature of its core will provide ...

At age 75, Vadevino Alano keeps up a brisk pace as he strides through the forest on the way to the Armadillo’s Den — a ...

An early love of construction toys led the Scottish chemist to thread molecules together, opening up a new field of chemistry ...

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But this needn’t mean the end of US decarbonization efforts, nor further environmental degradation. What’s important is that ...

The team found that animals that had the virus inoculated directly into their lungs became severely ill, whereas animals that ...

Climate models predict that the number of heat-related deaths could soar in cities over the coming century, even when efforts ...

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In the midst of pandemic upheaval, researchers have gained fundamental insights about how the body fends off infections.

Nature asked the world’s largest health-research funders what they are doing to study a life stage experienced by half of humanity. Here is what some of them told us.

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