Nature Summaries and Reviews
See all summaries and reviews from Nature at a glance.
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
Deep-Sea Dilemma
Mining the ocean floor could solve mineral shortages – and lead to epic extinctions in some of the most remote ecosystems on Earth.
Nature, 2019
How Does COVID Affect Mother and Baby?
Pregnant women fare worse than others, although the risks to the fetus are slight.
Nature, 2021
The Entangled Web
Quantum physics can already make communications super-secure. But exploiting some of its strangest properties could take these networks to the next level.
Nature, 2018
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
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
Stocking the Shelves for the Next Pandemic
Despite previous warnings, drug makers failed to prepare a stockpile of compounds to fight viral pandemics. Can they finally do the right thing?
Nature, 2021
The Future Costs of Methane Emissions
An analysis of the costs of climate change caused by adding one tonne of methane to the atmosphere finds that high-income regions of the world should spend much more on efforts to lower such emissions than should low-income regions.
Nature, 2021
Gene-Edited Monkey Clones Stir Excitement and Debate
Genetically identical primates offer the best models of human disease, but raise ethical issues.
Nature, 2019
Dams Have the Power to Slow Climate Change
Mitigate global warming and produce clean, cheap hydropower at the same time, urges Mike Muller.
Nature, 2019
Resisting the Rise of Facial Recognition
Growing use of surveillance technology has prompted calls for bans and stricter regulation.
Nature, 2020
Beating Biometric Bias
The technology is improving – but the bigger issue is how it’s used.
Nature, 2020
