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Artificial-intelligence tools offer a variety of approaches to help scientists to sift through the literature — how can researchers use them responsibly?

Body counts are a crude measure of the war’s impact and more reliable estimates will take time to compile.

The milestone is essential for slowing global warming, but the hard work is still to come.

Evidence shows that blockbuster weight-loss medications can reduce obesity even in children aged 6–11 years, but their long-term effects on growing bodies are unknown.

Stem-cell transplants have freed seven people of the virus, but researchers say most long-term interventions remain a distant prospect.

Nature talks to infectious-disease specialists about whether vaccines will curb this outbreak and more.

From training to broadcasting, artificial intelligence will have an imprint on this year’s event for the first time.

Not only are these extreme events increasing in frequency, they are lasting longer and becoming hotter, too.

In the age of artificial intelligence, situations are emerging that challenge the laws over rights to a persona.

Nature talks to researchers studying the protests about a high-stakes congressional hearing this week and accusations of antisemitism on campus.

Warming temperatures are likely to mean that more of your plane ride will have rocky conditions, creating potentially dangerous situations.

Nature talks to physicists about what to expect in the next few months and beyond as the Sun hits its ‘maximum’.

Pasteurized milk is probably not a threat to people, but fresh milk droplets on milking equipment could be spreading the virus in a herd.

As the military alliance created to counter the Soviet Union expands, it is prioritizing studies on how climate change affects security, cyberattacks and election interference.

As negotiators haggle over a global treaty to curb plastics pollution, a flood of data outlines how a treaty could make a difference.

Litigation can lead governments to strengthen their climate policies and curb companies’ greenwashing, say scientists.

A virus that has killed hundreds of millions of birds has now infected cattle in six US states, but the threat to humans is currently low.

As the climate crisis rages on, advocacy for testing controversial solar geoengineering technology is ramping up.

The entrepreneur endorses the drug, but researchers caution that it’s not to be taken lightly.

Therapy built on tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes is now being prepared for at least 20 people in the United States with advanced melanoma.