A new book explores the poisonous concoctions in Agatha Christie’s murder mysteries and the science behind how they kill.

In the 1950s, Stanley Miller and Nobel laureate Harold Urey conducted experiments at the University of Chicago in which they ...

Analysis of U.S. policy documents reveals very little overlap in the science that Democrats and Republicans cite, deepening ...

Just days after the newly released Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025 revealed that only 35 per cent of targets are on track or showing moderate progress, Science Day at the High-Level ...

Researchers at the University of Kansas conducted a study in which they had subjects read a news release written by a fictional company about a problem with their product. Those who were told the ...

Lonni Besançon has faced online abuse, threats and legal challenges. But he remains proud of his service to science and ...

Many narrators continue to portray Oppenheimer as the father of the atomic bomb. But crediting him was part of a strategy to make nuclear weapons look like an unambiguous force of good—not of evil.

Readers respond to Michael Pollan’s piece about priests taking psychedelics and Daniel Immerwahr’s essay about the decline of trust in experts.

Replication research can take the temperature on how accurate science in a given field is, but research replication is easier said than done.

In a powerful demonstration of how science is evolving beyond the lab, a global citizen science initiative has helped uncover an extraordinary stellar explosion backed by Monash University researchers ...

26 June 2025 NIH-funded science must now be free to read instantly: what you should know US biomedical agency’s public-access policy kicks in on 1 July. Nature talks to specialists about how to ...

Aditya Vashistha, a professor of information science at Cornell who co-authored the study, compared the A.I. to “a teacher who is sitting behind me every time I’m writing, saying, ‘This is ...