Beijing wants to double down on advanced semiconductor technologies, artificial intelligence and basic research.

Over millennia, people have selectively bred the sugarcane plant to optimize the crop’s taste, yield and ease of cultivation.

Remains of some of the 300,000 soldiers who died on the retreat from Moscow reveal two bacterial diseases that probably added ...

Mr Vetch?” He holds out a paper bag. “I have your prescription.” Harold levers himself up. “Finally.” The first day of the ...

Nature surveyed scientists about their favourite cinematic moments to celebrate the International Year of Quantum Science and ...

Nature asked researchers who use artificial intelligence how its propensity for people-pleasing affects their work — and what ...

Florida’s primary reef-building corals have been declared ‘functionally extinct’ — prompting a shift in conservation ...

The approach, published on 23 October in Science, builds on a trend that is sweeping the field of drug discovery: the use of ...

When students entered Tsinghua University in Beijing this year, one of the first representatives they met wasn’t a person.

Civet cats enrich coffee beans they eat and excrete with two fatty acids often used in dairy products, study finds.

A theoretical study suggests that gravity could have quantum effects without itself being a quantum theory. Other researchers ...

Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and ...