There are many brilliant science podcasts out there, with something for everyone. Below are just a few of the current popular ...

US biomedical agency’s public-access policy kicks in on 1 July. Nature talks to specialists about how to comply.

Recovering "revenge addict" James Kimmel Jr. makes the case for retaliation to be understood as an addiction in new book The ...

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A new slate of vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Thursday to recommend that ...

The story of the birth and growth of nuclear science is rebalanced in Destroyer of Worlds, which gives due prominence to the ...

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, we journey to 2035, when undersea living became a reality. Rowan Hooper tells us how it happened ...

Dark stars were first suggested in 2007, but now observations with the James Webb Space Telescope hint that we may have ...

Nuclear fusion power will probably require vast quantities of enriched lithium – but we aren’t making nearly enough, and ...

A new book on quantum physics is pleasingly full of cutting-edge topics. Yet it isn't the accessible work it promised to be ...

Why do we follow rules? A series of experiments with more than 14,000 people reveals that around a quarter of us will follow rules unconditionally, even if obeying them harms us and there is no downsi ...

Things are either equal or they aren’t – mathematically speaking, at least, right? Not so fast, says Eugenia Cheng in her new book, Unequal: The maths of when things do and don’t add up. In ...