A three-part Nature Podcast series explores the importance of scientific naming conventions — and talks to researchers looking at how to make them more inclusive.

Neuroscientist Jessica Cantlon is urging scientists to use the power of local newspapers in the fight against US research-funding cuts.

With the world set to blow past its temperature targets, efforts are growing to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

Work from the International Rice Research Institute to develop high-yield rice that survives deep waters, and a holistic view of physiology, in this week’s dip into Nature’s archive.

The international community has a golden opportunity to start reining in the escalating, mostly ignored global burden of chronic kidney disease.

In episode three of What's in a name we look at how ideas can be lost in translation when physicists try to name the unknown.

Computer scientists and bioinformaticians address four key questions to help rookie coders to make the right choice.

Fifty years ago, a spacecraft designed and built by young Indian scientists redefined what a low-income country could achieve.

Freshwater insects used ‘microplastic’ as a building material long before scientists coined the term.

‘There are no model countries’ when it comes to creating environments that encourage victims of sexual harassment to come forward, shows a study of one Swedish university.

The ‘off-the-charts saturated’ greenish hue — called olo — has been seen by only five study participants.

A trawl of job views and application data suggests jobseekers are looking abroad as the Trump administration’s cuts to science take hold.

Researchers who spoke to Nature say they don’t have the money or staff to do fieldwork or process samples.

Study finds dozens of journals that have hiked their fees and started churning out papers after being acquired by small, recently formed companies.

Bold claims of ‘biosignature’ molecules trigger an outpouring of scepticism.

The National Science Foundation is the latest US agency to be disrupted by Elon Musk’s DOGE.