Chinese president Xi Jinping speaking at the 2025 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea.Credit: Yonhap via AP/AlamyDespite risks ranging from exacerbating inequality to causing existential catastrophe, the world has yet to agree on regulations to govern artificial intelligence....
Researchers have trapped more atoms of antimatter more quickly than ever before — a potentially transformative step in elucidating the mysteries of this elusive substance1. Access options Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals Get Nature+, our best-value online-access...
The work of COP30 president André Corrêa do Lago and Brazil’s environment minister Marina Silva must continue at COP31 in Antalya, Turkey.Credit: Pablo Porciuncula/AFP/GettyThe 30th United Nations climate conference, COP30, ended on Saturday evening with an agreement between the 195...
Theoretical astrophysicist Debarati Chatterjee has always seen gender for what it is — a social construct. Despite witnessing domestic violence as a child, experiencing sexual harassment as an undergraduate and a PhD student, and being one of the small proportion...
Materials and instrumentsAll reagents and solvents used for the synthesis of the compounds were purchased from Aldrich and Acros companies and used without further purification. 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra were recorded using a Varian Mercury plus 400NB spectrometer,...
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China has seen increasing international enrolments as its universities grow in stature, but this has also brought challenges.Credit: Yang Bo/China News Service/VCG via GettyIn 2018, I argued that China’s meteoric growth in research output masked deeper structural issues, including inconsistent...
After more than a decade of planning, the launch of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) is being celebrated in Mombasa, Kenya, this week at the Seventh Biennial Scientific Conference on Medical Products Regulation in Africa. The agency’s establishment marks a...
The smoldering rubble after the World Trace Center collapsed on 11 September, 2001. Credit: Porter Gifford/Corbis/GettyAfter interviewing health-care workers who had responded to the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 in New York City, Erin Smith, a disaster-response researcher at...
To produce enough ‘critical metals’ such as copper, lithium and nickel to support the green-energy transition, the mining industry needs to boost operations two-to-fivefold worldwide by 20501. Geopolitical tensions, environmental damage and social conflicts will constrain this growth2. But another...
