Researcher used carbon dating to provide evidence that humans had arrived in Brazil much earlier than previously thought.

If Stephen Quake gets his way, biologists in the future will spend a lot less time wielding pipettes. “Our goal,” he says, ...

Research across science and medicine will probably shrink at one of the world’s most elite universities amid a new political ...

In 2008, researchers reported that these rocks dated back 4.3 billion years 2, a claim that other scientists contested. Work ...

US biomedical agency’s public-access policy kicks in on 1 July. Nature talks to specialists about how to comply.

Thimerosal is found in only a small fraction of US vaccine doses but has long been viewed with suspicion by the ...

Killer whales turn kelp stalks into tools that they use to groom each other while cleaning their own skin, too, observations ...

Merging synthetic organic chemistry and biotechnology, researchers have engineered Escherichia coli that can synthesize small molecules (including paracetamol) from a plastic waste product ...

Five paddlers completed a journey from Taiwan to Yonaguni Island, across some of the world's fastest oceanic currents, ...

An artificial intelligence (AI) model developed by Google DeepMind in London could help scientists to make sense of this ...

The brains of people writing an essay with ChatGPT are less engaged than those of people blocked from using any online tools ...

Human-surveillance technologies have advanced in the past few years with the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI ...