For decades, the dream of projecting a fully three-dimensional image into empty space has been constrained by an inconvenient truth of physics: light refuses to stay where it is told.

In the natural world, organisms and their environments are locked in a constant conversation. Termites build nests that alter airflow and humidity, which in turn changes how the termites behave.

For decades, doctors have judged blood pressure risk by a single, deceptively simple number: the average. But a sweeping new study drawing on nearly 190,000 adults from the UK Biobank suggests that ...

A quiet revolution is unfolding at the scale of a human hair. In work highlighted in a News and Views piece by Wenqi Hu of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, published in Nature ...

Chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, remain among the world’s most persistent killers. In the European region alone, they account for n ...

Boron has long been one of the most stubborn elements on the periodic table. It is light, abundant, and chemically versatile, yet for decades the crystalline forms of pure boron that chemists could ...

A single thread that can glow, compute, sense a hand moving through the air, and survive a trip through the washing machine sounds like science fiction, but a team at Donghua University in Shanghai ...

Few discoveries in modern condensed matter physics have energized the community quite like the rise of the nickelate ...

Textiles have accompanied humanity for thousands of years, but the fibres that make up our clothing have remained, for the most part, electrically passive. A growing body of research aims to change ...

Deep in the mountain fynbos of South Africa, a frog smaller than a fingernail is quietly rewriting what scientists thought ...

Rare diseases are defined individually by their scarcity, but collectively they represent one of the largest burdens of unmet medical need in modern medicine. An estimated 300 million people worldwide ...

A single pollutant, swallowed by a pregnant mother in doses that would not raise eyebrows at a seafood counter, may be enough to bend the arc of her children’s development in profoundly different d ...