Flooding affects more people than any other environmental hazard — and the risk of floods is growing. In this week’s issue, Beth Tellman and her colleagues reveal the extent of rising flood exposure ...

This document provides instructions on our online service for presubmission enquiries. Presubmission enquiries are provided purely as a service to authors (for example, to see if a manuscript is ...

Springer Nature is a signatory of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). Because small numbers of highly cited articles can have outsized influence on certain citation measures ...

Cells use lipid molecules for a wide range of purposes, from forming cell membranes to storing energy, but these molecules can be frustratingly hard to study because it is difficult to trace their ...

RNA molecules can adopt complex 3D structures, but whether DNA can self-assemble into similar 3D folded structures has been less clear. In this week’s issue, Luiz Passalacqua and his colleagues use a ...

Hopes of securing a United Nations treaty on plastic pollution are fading after the final round of negotiations ended without an agreement.

Some researchers want an upgraded version of Alan Turing’s AI thought experiment; others want it scrapped entirely. Plus, why the rate of peanut allergies might have dropped in the United States and a ...

This guide describes how to prepare contributions for submission. We recommend you read this in full if you have not previously submitted a contribution to Nature. We also recommend that, before ...

Neuroblastoma is a highly lethal childhood cancer that develops in the peripheral nervous system with tumour growth fuelled by the biosynthesis of polyamines. The drug difluoromethylornithine, which ...

The US National Cancer Act of 1971 has fostered tremendous progress in our understanding of the biology that underlies cancer. However, scientific and social challenges remain. A new action plan to ...

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 ...

Laser cooling — the use of photons to slow the movement of atoms — changed the face of atomic physics when it was first demonstrated 40 years ago. In this week’s issue, the ALPHA collaboration takes ...