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Device decades in the making senses very small alterations in Earth’s rotation.

Some researchers thank admin colleagues with chocolates or wine. But deadline pressures, and the need to generate research income, can sometimes result in bullying.

But to breach the Paris agreement’s limit, the heating must be sustained for many years.

A pattern of brain activity linked with recovery from severe depression could be used to improve therapies such as deep-brain stimulation

Questions remain about whether the AI tool for predicting protein structures can really shake up the pharmaceutical industry.

Some European governments are tightening their political grip on universities, sparking calls for action.

Researchers have shown that the creatures can learn to avoid obstacles using visual and mechanical cues, despite not having a brain.

The physician-researcher who spoke out against misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic says attacks against science are formidable — and getting worse.

A group of researchers say that a high-profile theory about consciousness is receiving undue attention and can’t be empirically tested. Plus, world leaders have pledged to redouble their efforts towards the Sustainable Development Goals and ancient whittled logs could be the earliest known wooden structure.

A special package explores problems and solutions to the geography of injustice.

Large-scale survey reveals the diversity of viruses in small mammals, which can be sources of viruses that hop to humans.

United Nations secretary-general António Guterres proposes US$500 billion annual stimulus package to meet the Sustainable Development Goals.

The synthesis and isolation of a crystalline dication derived from a bis(imino)carbene through a two-electron oxidation/oxide-ion abstraction strategy is reported that bypasses the carbene radical cation, maintaining significant electrophilicity with two accessible vacant orbitals.

Heterogeneous geminal-atom catalysts, which pair single-atom sites in specific coordination and spatial proximity, offer a new avenue for the sustainable manufacture of fine chemicals.

Ground- and satellite-based air pollution data from 2000 to 2022 quantify the contribution of wildfire smoke to stagnation or reversal in PM_2.5 concentration trends, showing that this contribution will grow as the climate continues to warm.

This study demonstrates how activity in the cingulate cortex tracks depression recovery, providing symptom relief using deep brain stimulation.

Reductive carboxylation of glutamine by isocitrate dehydrogenase 2 (IDH2) has a role in determining the fate of T cells, and inhibiting this enzyme promotes the differentiation of memory T cells.

The global population is increasingly exposed to daily landscape fire-sourced air pollution but there are socioeconomic disparities, with this pollution four times higher in low-income countries than in high-income countries during the period 2000–2019.