The World Health Organization accord promotes sharing scientific data in exchange for more equitable distribution of drugs ...

Today, florists sell roses in a range of colours including red, purple, yellow — and even painted with blue or multi-coloured dyes. But what colour were the first roses? A large genomic analysis ...

The potential sums associated with announcements of quantum-tech breakthroughs are huge. Within 24 hours of the Willow chip’s launch, Google’s parent company Alphabet saw a jump of around 5% in its ...

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

To combat long-overlooked fungal pathogens, researchers and regulators must embrace innovative science and policy.

Pigs bred for animal-to-human organ transplant experiments are usually genetically modified to reduce the chance that the recipient’s immune system will attack the organ. Credit: Shelby Lum/AP via ...

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 ...

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 ...

More research is urgently needed to identify other ways to effectively rebuild trust in science across the political spectrum. The authors declare no competing interests.

The fossil expert found love at first sight with trilobites.

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.

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