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 ...

A search for the genes responsible for the high incidence of heart defects in children with Down’s syndrome casts a light on potentially affected developmental processes.

Browse the archive of articles on NatureReply to: Natively expressed AcrIII-1 does not function as an anti-CRISPR protein Januka S. Athukoralage Stephen A. McMahon Malcolm F. White ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 cover shows an artist’s impression of SARS-CoV-2 in the bloodstream based on the latest cryo-EM images of the virus, with neutralizing antibodies (yellow) attaching to the spike protein on the ...

The burgeoning commercial sector that is based on genome information poses a challenge to the norms of scientific publication. But it remains to be established that the conditions of access to ...

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 ...

The cover shows human bronchial cells infected with SARS-CoV-2, captured using a scanning electron microscope. In this week’s issue, a collection of six papers reveals key information about the ...