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Synthetic diamond recovers from fracture when carbon atoms on both sides of the gap form bonds with each other.

Ozone recovery is predicted to shift westerly winds, which will reduce the amount of warm water flowing into the Southern Ocean.

Laurent Marivaux works to identify ancient mammals to understand evolutionary history in South America.

People with an abundance of specific neurons are more likely to escape cognitive decline despite having signs of Alzheimer’s in their brains.

Models trained on large data sets of seismic events can estimate the number of aftershocks better than conventional models do.

In organisms with X and Y chromosomes, gene expression must be equalized between the sexes. A protein that causes upregulation of gene expression of the X chromosome in male mosquitoes has been discovered.

With a few modifications, ChatGPT-like models could enhance the art of identifying future laureates.

Tens of thousands of federal researchers might have to stop work on 1 October — but the shutdown’s effects could ripple well beyond government.

Efforts to prevent infections and keep vulnerable people out of hospital are beginning to pay off, but deploying these strategies presents new challenges.

Hours of footage of zebrafish embryos let researchers capture and study this key moment in development.

Using a metal–organic framework, researchers reduced the volume of a water-based mixture by 7%.

Magnetically confined neutral antihydrogen atoms released in a gravity field were found to fall towards Earth like ordinary matter, in accordance with Einstein’s general theory of relativity.

An analysis of 2,239 terrestrial vertebrate populations shows that they decline more slowly in protected areas than outside protected areas, but the benefits vary across vertebrate classes and depend on the regional context of the protected area.

Fossilized gut contents of an Ordovician trilobite shed light on the feeding habits of one of the most common and well-known extinct arthropods.

Insect biomass data covering 27 years were reanalysed using sample-specific information on weather conditions during sampling and weather anomalies during the insect life cycle, finding that biomass is driven by complex weather conditions.

We identify a seasonal advance of intense tropical cyclones that is closely related to the seasonal advance of rapid intensification events, favoured by the observed earlier onset of favourable oceanic conditions.

Nearly 90% of global variation in species richness of birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles is shown to be explained by the joint effects of climate and the geographic structure (area and isolation) of climate.