A Nature analysis reveals the 25 highest-cited papers published this century and explores why they are breaking records.

Preliminary copies of some of the US government’s spending plans suggest that President Donald Trump’s administration intends ...

A system that helps visually impaired people to navigate their surroundings using cameras, earphones and artificial ...

To combat long-overlooked fungal pathogens, researchers and regulators must embrace innovative science and policy.

The authors selectively exposed some of the mixture to light, then repeated this process to create layered 3D objects, some ...

US National Science Foundation announces lowest number of Graduate Research Fellowship Programme recipients in 15 years.

In fact, many papers on biological laboratory techniques dominate the list of the most highly cited papers of all time, according to data provided to Nature by the US firm Clarivate, which owns the ...

The researchers found that popular twenty-first-century papers on topics such as artificial intelligence (AI), scientific software and methods to improve the quality of research dominate today’s ...

Physics are sketching the designs of a particle accelerator that would be radically smaller and cheaper than existing ...

More research is urgently needed to identify other ways to effectively rebuild trust in science across the political spectrum. The authors declare no competing interests.

The NIH is by far the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research, with an annual budget of US$47 billion paying for ...

Researchers have created the largest and most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date, by mapping cells in a ...