The researchers found that popular twenty-first-century papers on topics such as artificial intelligence (AI), scientific software and methods to improve the quality of research dominate today’s ...

A Nature analysis reveals the 25 highest-cited papers published this century and explores why they are breaking records.

Resource constraints hobble analyses of how digital technologies affect mental health, and take a huge toll on the scientists working to make the online world safer.

In fact, many papers on biological laboratory techniques dominate the list of the most highly cited papers of all time, according to data provided to Nature by the US firm Clarivate, which owns the ...

Preliminary copies of some of the US government’s spending plans suggest that President Donald Trump’s administration intends ...

A system that helps visually impaired people to navigate their surroundings using cameras, earphones and artificial ...

Physics are sketching the designs of a particle accelerator that would be radically smaller and cheaper than existing ...

The NIH is by far the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research, with an annual budget of US$47 billion paying for ...

To test whether the neurons were functional, the researchers injected them into the brains of rats treated with a neurotoxin ...

The IEA report finds that the US, Europe, and China are collectively responsible for 85% of data centres’ current energy ...

Gene editing and many other useful biotechnology tools came from studies of bacteria fighting off viral invaders. But ...

Researchers have created the largest and most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date, by mapping cells in a ...