George E. Smith obituary: co-inventor of the charge coupled device, which ushered in an era of digital images Summary This obituary recalls the life and work of George E. Smith,…
‘A biographer’s dream’: this physicist investigated UFOs and flew over Hiroshima Summary Alec Nevala-Lee’s biography Collisions: A Physicist’s Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs profiles Luis Alvarez…
How researcher visa curbs threaten science careers Summary Nature profiles how recent visa bans, tighter screening and long delays are disrupting the careers of international researchers and students. The piece…
Outrage over Trump team’s climate report spurs researchers to fight back Summary A US Department of Energy (DoE) report — produced by five sceptical scholars recruited by US Energy Secretary…
Is gravity quantum? Experiments could finally probe one of physics’ biggest questions Summary Physicists have long struggled to reconcile the unrivalled success of quantum mechanics with Einstein’s classical theory of…
Just how bad will climate change get? The only way to know is to fund basic research Summary Tim Palmer argues that the largest scientific uncertainty in projections of future…
Summary An icy visitor from the Oort cloud that was thought to have fallen apart after a close pass by the Sun in 2022 has been spotted again in telescope…
Publisher Correction: Liquid–liquid interfacial tension stabilized Li-metal batteries Summary This Publisher Correction, published 13 August 2025, amends labelling errors in Fig. 5e and Fig. 5f of the Original Article (published…
Alarm raised over ‘high-severity’ vulnerabilities in Matrix messaging protocol Summary The Matrix Foundation has released an off-cycle security update to patch two high-severity vulnerabilities in the Matrix federated messaging protocol…
Pennsylvania attorney general says cyberattack knocked phone, email systems offline Summary The Office of Pennsylvania’s Attorney General reported that its phone and email systems are offline after a cyberattack. The…
