Many potential applications for artificial intelligence require making real-time decisions. Car racing, in which drivers must undertake complex tactical manoeuvres while controlling their vehicle at ...

Scientists of the 1970s look to the past and future of telecommunications, and a rainbow against a blue sky dazzles a reader, in this week’s peek at Nature’s archive.

Do your New Year resolutions include a plan to leave higher education? These researchers explain how to reinvent your career.

The cover shows examples of early rock art found in limestone caves on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. As Adhi Agus Oktaviana and colleagues report in this week’s issue, a hand stencil dated to at ...

From sticky hinges to bicycle brakes, squeaks are part of everyday life. Although the way sound is generated when two rigid bodies slide over each other is relatively clear, what happens when a soft ...

Browse the archive of articles on Nature Reply to: On the effects of fault alignment on slip stability Jaeseok Lee Victor C. Tsai Daniel T. Trugman ...

Browse the archive of articles on Nature Author Correction: Rolling back human pluripotent stem cells to an eight-cell embryo-like stage Md. Abdul Mazid Carl Ward Miguel A. Esteban ...

Historians have discovered some recognizable jottings in a 400-year-old copy of Ptolemy’s The Almagest. Plus, tectonic plates might’ve started moving earlier than we thought and how ...

The cover shows an artist’s impression of SARS-CoV-2 in the bloodstream based on the latest cryo-EM images of the virus, with neutralizing antibodies (yellow) attaching to the spike protein on the ...

The extreme conditions found in the deep sea mean that this part of the planet remains largely unexplored. In this week’s issue, Tiefeng Li and his colleagues present a soft robot that can operate at ...

Root-associated microbial symbionts have a strong influence over the way forest ecosystems function. The identity of the symbionts can help determine how easily trees access nutrients, sequester ...

Pure mathematics involves the discovery of patterns between mathematical objects and using these connections to formulate conjectures. Mathematicians have deployed computers since the 1960s to help ...