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Snippets from Nature’s past.

Even stringent emission limits will not preserve the end-of-summer ice on Arctic seas.

One of the world’s most advanced telescopes, located in Chile, uses the beams to make artificial stars.

The move is designed to encourage research and help boost institutions’ rankings. But some researchers say it will reward those already established in their careers.

An outbreak of polio in 1950s Denmark led one hospital to pioneer mechanical ventilation, constant monitoring of vital signs and other innovations that are saving lives to this day.

A remarkable research ship’s voyages to understand marine biodiversity show how visionary thinking can boost understanding of the natural world — and help to better preserve it.

Analysis of nearly 300,000 people finds an association between the shingles jab and a lower rate of dementia — but questions linger.

Kathleen Folbigg, who was jailed in Australia in 2003 over the sudden deaths of her four young children has been pardoned and released in the wake of new scientific evidence.

Lucas van der Zee hopes to restore current farmland to its natural state by eliminating the vegetation stage of crop-growing.

The charge relates to how GNS Science communicated volcanic risk to contractors in the years before the Whakaari White Island eruption in 2019.

We present James Webb Space Telescope observations that detect the 3.3 μm polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon feature in a galaxy observed less than 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang.

Finding time and space to grieve for a partner, child or friend can be complicated for researchers — and the peers who support them.

The presence of the molecules in an early galaxy means it must have pumped out stars at a furious pace, researchers say.

Sleeping C. elegans offers clues to the molecular changes underpinning the link between sleep and memory.

Earlier this year, Nature co-sponsored a science-fiction essay competition. According to runner-up Miles Lizak’s science-fiction essay, an ideal research institution would foster curiosity and collaboration, placing greater value on asking brave questions rather than claiming to know all the answers.

The Council of the European Union has recommended an academic-publishing model in which neither readers nor authors pay. Plus, the astonishing microbial diversity among coral reefs and how to avoid the pitfalls of coding with ChatGPT.