Nature Summaries and Reviews
See all summaries and reviews from Nature at a glance.
Cloud Labs: Where Robots Do the Research
A host of companies provide a remote, automated workforce for conducting experiments around the clock.
Nature, 2023
Energy crisis: five questions that must be answered in 2023
Market turmoil and geopolitical realignment after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine put livelihoods and the green-energy transition at risk. Here’s how researchers can help overcome the threats.
Nature, 2022
How to Stop Cities and Companies Causing Planetary Harm
Researchers must help to define science-based targets for water, nutrients, carbon emissions and more to avoid cascading effects and stave off tipping points in Earth’s systems.
Nature, 2022
DeepMind AI Learns Simple Physics Like a Baby
Neural network could be a step towards programs for studying how human infants learn.
Nature, 2022
Open-Source Language AI Challenges Big Tech’s Models
BLOOM aims to address the biases that machine-learning systems inherit from the texts they train on.
Nature, 2022
Guardians of the Brain
The brain’s borders teem with an army of immune cells that monitor and protect it.
Nature, 2022
Your Brain Expands and Shrinks Over Time – These Charts Show How
Based on more than 120,000 brain scans, the charts are still preliminary. But researchers hope they could one day be used as a routine clinical tool by physicians.
Nature, 2022
Tropical Forests Have Big Climate Benefits Beyond Carbon Storage
Study finds that trees cool the planet by one-third of a degree through biophysical mechanisms such as humidifying the air.
Nature, 2022
Lithium-Ion Batteries Need to Be Greener and Ethical
Batteries are key to humanity’s future – but they come with environmental and human costs, which must be mitigated.
Nature, 2021
Six Months of COVID Vaccines: What 1.7 Billion Doses Have Taught Scientists
As countries race to administer coronavirus vaccines, researchers are analysing the effects while a rash of viral variants raises concern.
Nature, 2021
Landmark CRISPR Trial Shows Promise Against Deadly Disease
Administering gene-editing treatment directly into the body could be a safe and effective way to treat a rare, life-threatening condition.
Nature, 2021
First Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Released in the United States
Biotech firm Oxitec launches controversial field test of its insects in Florida after years of opposition from residents and regulatory complications.
Nature, 2021
