OpenAI has released GPT-5.2, which aims to be ChatGPT's "most capable model series yet for professional knowledge work." ...

Leading synthetic biologists have shared hard-won lessons from their decade-long quest to build the world's first synthetic ...

Artificial intelligence is no longer just a tool for science—it is starting to reshape how science itself is practiced. A ...

New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through ...

Conversational counselor agents have become essential tools for addressing the rising demand for scalable and accessible mental health support. This paper introduces CAMI, a novel automated counselor ...

Like Ghaskadbi, many researchers can trace their initial childhood interest in science to a gift. Dozens of readers of the Nature Briefing responded to our call asking about their favourite presents — ...

As sustainability demands grow, sustainability professionals—along with many other groups—are increasingly expected to help ...

In a little over ten years, organoid models—miniature, lab-grown clusters of cells that imitate real organs—have transformed how we study human development and disease while accelerating drug ...

It’s also a move that should change up how AI systems operate as we know it. For AI companies, MCP is the new standard for ...

The directors of this year’s best animated feature hopefuls talk inspiration, originality and why emotional truth comes before technique.

An ecologist at the IPCC for over 25 years, Camille Parmesan, who is also a refugee scientist, explains how to preserve ...

A type of chaos found in everything from prime numbers to turbulence can unify a pair of unrelated ideas, revealing a ...