This issue features a special on the circular economy�, a term coined by Swiss architect-engineer Walter Stahel, who has been a leader in developing the concept of sustainability as applied to ...

Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) have the potential to restore communication to people who have lost the ability to move or speak. To date, the focus has largely been on motor skills such as reaching ...

The cover captures a hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus) in South Africa. Although maintaining biodiversity is core to sustainable development, policymakers frequently lack context-specific information ...

The cover captures a hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus) in South Africa. Although maintaining biodiversity is core to sustainable development, policymakers frequently lack context-specific information ...

Lithium-metal batteries promise to charge rapidly and to hold more energy than batteries based on lithium ions. Recharging these batteries requires lithium metal to be reformed at the anode, but this ...

Large language models (LLMs) have quickly become a source of artificially generated text, widely used to power tools such as chatbots. But it can be difficult to identify and attribute AI-generated ...

The extreme conditions found in the deep sea mean that this part of the planet remains largely unexplored. In this week’s issue, Tiefeng Li and his colleagues present a soft robot that can operate at ...

Our perceptions of the world are increasingly influenced by online media, which can perpetuate social stereotypes and bias our views. The rise of artificial intelligence — especially large language ...

The cover shows an artist’s impression of SARS-CoV-2 in the bloodstream based on the latest cryo-EM images of the virus, with neutralizing antibodies (yellow) attaching to the spike protein on the ...

The built environment consumes energy and produces waste, which makes it pivotal to fighting climate change. A stronger dose of research could help.

The cover shows an artist’s impression of the temperate rainforest that existed in West Antarctica some 90 million years ago. The mid-Cretaceous period basked in some of the warmest temperatures of ...