Confidence in the scientific community declined among U.S. adults in 2022, a major survey shows, driven by a partisan divide in views of both science and medicine that emerged during the COVID-19 ...

Early-career scientist Dan Whitt co-published a paper in Nature Communications, “Storms drive outgassing of CO2 in the subpolar Southern Ocean”. https://www ...

A growing number of college graduates in computer science are recentering their ambitions.

2022 marked a year when the world continued to feel its way through the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet another new variant upended the desire to arrive at a “new normal,” but the development of improved ...

How often does something work exactly as planned and live up to its hype? In most of the world, that’s the equivalent of stumbling across a unicorn that’s holding a few winning lottery tickets in its ...

Science is such a forward-looking endeavor that it’s all the more rewarding when long, challenging efforts finally come to fruition. And 2022 was a year with many payoffs, as researchers began ...

From a cranky-faced fetus scowling at her mother’s healthy lunch choice to an octogenarian still benefiting from long-ago musical lessons, the most impactful psychological science research published ...

Lessons from Brazil on how science philanthropy can and should act in the face of political hostility. The United States is ...

The number of earned doctorates awarded by U.S. universities has reached an all-time high, after a pandemic-influenced decline in 2021. The number of research doctorates awarded by U.S. colleges and ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

We are pleased to share with you the 25 most downloaded Nature Communications articles* in social science and human behaviour published in 2022. Featuring authors ...