Art conservator and restorer Ludovica Alesse works to safeguard Ancient Roman remains unearthed in the latest excavations to ensure the city’s story will never fade.

Understanding prediction algorithms and engaging in decisions about their use is crucial to curbing concentrated power and rising inequality.

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, modelling and observational communities, will help to interpret the astronomical data now at our fingertips.

From using words to overthrowing regimes, shared awareness is necessary for people to coordinate. The cognitive scientist explains to Nature how it works.

Experiments suggests H9N2 has adapted to human cells but cases of person-to-person transmission haven’t been reported yet.

Scientists ‘draw’ crystal patterns using laser light.

Lessons learnt from research into the body’s internal clock could be key to unlocking blissful slumber.

A previously unknown strain left a stamp on modern varieties of the world’s most popular sugar source.

Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

Beijing wants to double down on advanced semiconductor technologies, artificial intelligence and basic research.

Nobel prizewinner who helped to improve scientific relations between China and the United States.

Nature asked researchers who use artificial intelligence how its propensity for people-pleasing affects their work — and what they are doing to mitigate it.

Remains of some of the 300,000 soldiers who died on the retreat from Moscow reveal two bacterial diseases that probably added to the death count.

Efforts to conserve Florida corals must now shift towards trying to develop heat-resistant strains, scientists say. Plus, what gives civet coffee its flavour and what we can learn from Brazil about saving rainforests.

The real thing.

Nature surveyed scientists about their favourite cinematic moments to celebrate the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology.

A deep-learning design sidesteps the need for time-consuming drug-screening.