Flasks have long been the fundamental piece of equipment for chemical syntheses and separations. In recent years, batch-reactor and flow-based systems have been created to run multistep processes ...

I have a five-year gap in my publication record. Last year, I published seven academic articles as either the first or corresponding author. Here’s why one level of output isn’t better than any other.

The Indus Waters Treaty withstood several armed conflicts and a huge loss of glaciers. It should serve as a blueprint for others.

Superluminous supernovae are at least ten times brighter than their regular counterparts, but astronomers have remained in the dark about what exactly powers these phenomena. In this week’s issue, ...

Studying large populations can shed light on how factors such as genetics, environment and lifestyle influence the composition of the gut microbiome. But despite being home to nearly 85% of the ...

A suggestion that mutant insects could detect narcotics or explosive substances, and how ash seeds feature a screw propeller, in this week’s pick from the Nature archive.

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The cover shows a woman laying sprats out to dry in the sun near the shore of Lake Tanganyika in Kigoma, Tanzania. Sprats, like other small fish, provide livelihoods and access to healthy diets to ...

Artificial intelligence has taken on and beaten human competitors in many games, including chess, StarCraft and Gran Turismo. But such successes have largely been limited to board games or virtual ...

A Go board depicted as a computer chip embedded on an integrated circuit board. The layout is taken from the final position of the historic Go game played on 5 October 2015 between Fan Hui (black ...

A blend of chemistry and molecular-biology techniques are enabling archaeologists to mine ancient sediments for clues about the people who once lived there.

The cover shows an artistic rendition of the effects of mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. The five mass bleaching and mortality events experienced by the reef between 2016 ...