Twenty years ago John Maddox published a celebrated News and Views article in Nature 1 in which he provocatively wrote: “One of the continuing scandals in the physical sciences is that it remains ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

The polymath Michael Polanyi famously said that “we know more than we can tell”. He was talking about the secret ingredient that allows a craftsman to speak to the wood knowing its limits before ...

The writer extols the virtues of immersing oneself in nature and laments the inevitable encroachment of private ownership upon the wilderness. I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom ...