Mycorrhizal fungi build vast networks in the soil to exchange nutrients with the roots of plants. Much of these dense networks consist of extremely fine tubes called hyphae, which can reach ...

These days, it seems that almost any transaction online is followed up with request to rate how things went. But when human labour is involved — from teacher evaluations to assessing the work of ...

Making our way through security each week is a slog, but teaching incarcerated people has been an incredible career experience.

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To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, six award-winning female scientists highlight women who have inspired them by pushing innovative research and creating opportunities for others.

The utility of generative AI tools is expanding far beyond simple summarisation and grammar support towards more sophisticated, pedagogical applications.

NASA has become the first US agency to pre-emptively fire career employees as part of a radical downsizing of the federal government. Plus, the activity of a certain gene variant is linked to ...

Current approaches to pain relief are falling short. Chemically modifying a synthetic cannabinoid could enable scientists to capitalize on the body’s natural pain-killing pathway without evoking ...

As Editor in Chief, Magdalena leads Nature’s magazine and research editorial teams. A geneticist by training, she has considerable editorial and publishing experience: having started in Nature ...

This document provides an outline of the editorial process involved in publishing a scientific paper (Article) in Nature, and describes how manuscripts are handled by editors between submission ...

This guide provides information on preparing production-quality figures and text files. The instructions apply only if your manuscript has been accepted in principle for publication and an editor ...

Top advisers in the Office of the Chief Scientist are among the first to go amid downsizing effort.