The self-administered tests are sold over the counter, holding out the promise of safer gatherings. But interpreting results requires savvy.

Just how common and how dangerous are breakthrough infections? Here’s a guide to what you need to know.

Researchers are struggling to figure out why people don’t get their Covid shots, and what language might persuade them. Saying “You gotta” seems to work.

These common sci-fi tropes could one day be science fact.

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New evidence about the ancient humans who occupied Asia is cascading in: the story of our species needs rewriting again.

Energy is one of the most basic concepts in physics, but also one of the hardest to define.

To understand self-organization in nature, behold the sand-pile.

Isolated communities traded canines and other goods with the Near East and Europe.

To help them explain the shocking success of deep neural networks, researchers are turning to older but better-understood models of machine learning.

With tremendous advances in radio astronomy, the study of variable or transient objects in radio waves is a huge field of study helping us to reveal the secrets of the Universe.

NASA’s Lucy mission will survey asteroids thought to have been swept up by migrating gas giants.

The Cosmic Microwave Background radiation has faint ripples and bumps in it at a level of brightness of only a part in one hundred thousand—the seeds for future structures, like galaxies.

Searching for signs of life on faraway planets, astrobiologists must decide which telltale bio-signature gases to target.

Asteroids that look like comets might teach us more about how water came to Earth. 

After years of debate and testing, digital state IDs may break into the mainstream.

Company executives promised that their technology could run hundreds of tests off a single drop of blood. It could not.

Urban transportation is central to the effort to slow climate change. It can’t be done by just switching to electric cars. Several cities are starting to electrify mass transit.

The new devices, custom made to fit individuals, could mean massive improvements in monitoring and treatment of diseases.

From language generation and molecular medicine to disinformation and algorithmic bias, AI has begun to permeate every aspect of our lives.

Starting or staying on the gold medal-winning Mediterranean diet? Then you'll need a shopping resource you can use to stock your pantry with Mediterranean meal essentials -- and continue to use on a weekly basis to restock and purchase fresh, frozen and canned vegetables, fruits, and more.

Adults at high risk for cardiovascular disease may face serious side effects if they start a daily regimen of low-dose aspirin.

For too long the state has allowed undue regulatory influence by pesticide companies.

Combination of drugs causes tumours to vanish in some terminally ill patients, study finds.

The nutritional properties of lentils have led researchers to study their effects on chronic diseases.

Phthalates, which can be found in hundreds of products such as toys, clothing, and shampoo, have been known for decades to be "hormone disruptors", affecting a person's endocrine system.

Polar Zero exhibition in Glasgow features sculpture encasing air extracted from start of Industrial Revolution.

Off the United States west coast, an assemblage of outer coast killer whales hunt from deep-water canyons.

Eliminating this food-poisoning bacterium from poultry is tricky — not least because rapid, precise tests are still unavailable. Researchers are looking at vaccines, probiotics, prebiotics and even essential oils as ways to reduce contamination on the farm.

Our perception of quantity, separate from counting or estimation of magnitude more generally, is foundational to human cognition, according to some neuroscientists.

It's officially arachnicide season in the Northern Hemisphere. Millions of spiders have appeared in our homes – and they'd better be on their guard.

Sources say the Biden administration opposed the idea, despite its professed support for environmental justice. Advocates see the recognition as key to better protecting the nvironment.

The Biden administration announced on Wednesday a plan to develop large-scale wind farms along nearly the entire coastline of the United States, the first long-term strategy from the government to produce electricity from offshore turbines.

We don’t know all the details yet about last Friday’s spill, but we do know it’s not even the worst spill to affect this particular stretch of the Southern California coast since many of us have been alive.

Over the last five years, the 100 top law firms in the US represented fossil fuel clients in 358 legal cases and transactions worth $1.36 trillion.

"It is critical that the EPA start regulating PFAS—now," said one scientist.

As countries prepare to negotiate over climate action at the COP26 summit, Nature takes readers’ temperature and questions.

These apps and resources can help you manage your eco-anxiety—and take steps to tread more lightly on the planet.

New images show what areas of the world can be saved or lost if carbon emissions aren’t curbed.

Agriculture is beginning to earn recognition as both a driver of climate change and a key part of the solution.

Researchers used machine learning to analyze more than 100,000 studies of weather events and found four-fifths of the world’s land area has suffered impacts linked to global warming.