Nature Изложения

Xuemei Bai et al.

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.

Carrie Arnold

A host of companies provide a remote, automated workforce for conducting experiments around the clock.

Diana Kwon

The brain’s borders teem with an army of immune cells that monitor and protect it.

Davide Castelvecchi

Neural network could be a step towards programs for studying how human infants learn.

Max Kozlov

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 Editorial

Batteries are key to humanity’s future – but they come with environmental and human costs, which must be mitigated.

Freda Kreier

Study finds that trees cool the planet by one-third of a degree through biophysical mechanisms such as humidifying the air.

Elizabeth Gibney

BLOOM aims to address the biases that machine-learning systems inherit from the texts they train on.

Heidi Ledford

Administering gene-editing treatment directly into the body could be a safe and effective way to treat a rare, life-threatening condition.

Andreas Goldthau and Simone Tagliapietra

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.

Chunhua Weng and James R. Rogers

An artificial-intelligence tool called Trial Pathfinder can run clinical-trial emulations using healthcare data from people with cancer, and can learn how to optimize trial-inclusion eligibility criteria, while maintaining patient safety.

Heidi Ledford

As countries race to administer coronavirus vaccines, researchers are analysing the effects while a rash of viral variants raises concern.