From the basic building blocks of matter and the forces that affect everyday life to the biological systems that keep living ...

The 2023 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine will go to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discovery that modifying mRNA—a form of genetic material your body uses to produce proteins—could ...

At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic world of quantum mechanics a century ago, they weren't trying to build ...

Science is all around us, shaping the way we understand the world and fueling countless innovations that improve our lives. Whether you’re a student, educator, or just a curious mind, science trivia ...

Manu Prakash works on the world’s most urgent problems and seemingly frivolous questions at the same time. They add up to a philosophy he calls “recreational biology.” Inside Manu Prakash are two ...

Earth science is a quest for fundamental knowledge about the origin, evolution, and future of the natural world. Opportunities in this science have been opened up by major improvements in techniques ...

This reprint collection marks the tenth anniversary of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in South Korea. It consists of eight papers published in the Nature family of journals that report some of ...