The deterioration of the Earth’s ozone layer, which protects the planet from harmful radiation, was viewed as an existential threat to humanity for decades. But today, you rarely hear about it. Ever ...

“When Data Tells a Story: Art, Climate, and the Future We Shape” will be featured at the New Bedford Whaling Museum on AHA!

For the past three decades, glaciologist Helen Amanda Fricker has been investigating polar regions — the fastest changing areas on Earth. By studying the Arctic and Antarctic, she and other scientists ...

Packalen is an associate professor of economics at the University of Waterloo. This essay is part of a First Opinion series on the future of the National Institutes of Health and American science.

Across the globe, citizen scientists are lending their eyes, hands, and curiosity to research. In some of these efforts, volunteers play the role of colorful creatures to study social behavior and ...

Anyone who keeps a bird feeder has likely had the same uneasy thought after seeing a sudden blur of wings in the yard: What ...

Artificial intelligence is threatening many jobs, and those in science seem unlikely to be exempt. So which jobs are most at risk? Seeking answers, Nature spoke to more than four dozen researchers ...

(Victor de Schwanberg/Science Photo Library/iStock/Getty Images) What do plants, toads, and mushrooms have in common? They ...

Alan Lightman and Martin Rees’s book, The Shape of Wonder: How Scientists Think, Work, and Live (2025), describes the lives of scientists; what inspires them, how they spend their time, how they ...