Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) have the potential to restore communication to people who have lost the ability to move or speak. To date, the focus has largely been on motor skills such as reaching ...

More refined AI models, advancements in human gene editing and the continuing impact of the Trump Team on science — we run through what to look out for over the next 12 months.

Measurements of the masses of exoplanets orbiting a young star have identified a system of low-density ‘super-puff’ planets.

Heterobilayer excitonic devices consisting of two different van der Waals materials, in which excitons are shared between the layers, exhibit electrically controlled switching actions at room ...

Five early-career scientists from around the world share how lingering COVID-19 pandemic shadows and ripples from US academic disruptions have affected them.

The cover captures a hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus) in South Africa. Although maintaining biodiversity is core to sustainable development, policymakers frequently lack context-specific information ...

The cover captures a hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus) in South Africa. Although maintaining biodiversity is core to sustainable development, policymakers frequently lack context-specific information ...

Lithium-metal batteries promise to charge rapidly and to hold more energy than batteries based on lithium ions. Recharging these batteries requires lithium metal to be reformed at the anode, but this ...

Large language models (LLMs) have quickly become a source of artificially generated text, widely used to power tools such as chatbots. But it can be difficult to identify and attribute AI-generated ...

If you’ve hatched a New Year plan to move abroad, improve your presentations or chase happiness as a 20-something researcher, you’ll find advice aplenty in these books.

Jellyfish seem to sleep in ways strikingly similar to humans, despite not having a brain. Plus, US lawmakers have pushed back on proposed cuts to science and why cancer can come back years after ...

The burgeoning commercial sector that is based on genome information poses a challenge to the norms of scientific publication. But it remains to be established that the conditions of access to ...