Photon avalanching is a nonlinear optical effect in which a material emits a disproportionately large number—an ‘avalanche’—of photons when illuminated above a threshold intensity. Until now, this ...

Manipulating micrometre-sized matter is not easy. Optical tweezers, which use tightly focused light beams to move matter, are extremely precise but limited by the very light forces they can apply.

The cover shows heavy storms over Ostfriesland in Germany. In general, economic assessments of the effects of climate change do not include daily rainfall. In this week’s issue, Leonie Wenz and her ...

The cover shows the structure of the interstellar magnetic field overlaid on the Taurus molecular cloud. During star formation, the interstellar magnetic field dissipates and molecular clouds collapse ...

The cover shows a thermal image of the carbonaceous (C-type) asteroid 162173 Ryugu. C-type asteroids formed some 4.6 billion years ago and are made up of primitive materials that could shed light on ...

When I found out that I was no longer eligible for an early-career grant, I took a moment to pause and reflect on my family life and my work.

Browse the archive of articles on Nature Retraction Note: sFRP2 in the aged microenvironment drives melanoma metastasis and therapy resistance Amanpreet Kaur Marie R. Webster Ashani T. Weeraratna ...

As Kamala Harris and Donald Trump face off, the fate of US democracy, science and evidence-based policy hangs in the balance. The annual toxic smog that forms over swathes of India and Pakistan is ...

Artefacts from a Mesopotamian archaeological site suggest that people in the region founded and later rejected an early form of the organized state.

Inspired by Indigenous Huichol art, the cover features a map of Mexico based on data that reflect the nation’s genetic diversity. In this week’s issue, Andrés Moreno-Estrada and his colleagues present ...

The terrestrial planets in our Solar System are thought to have formed from a mixture of interstellar solids and rocky material that precipitated out from the cooling hot gas around the young Sun. The ...