Photon avalanching is a nonlinear optical effect in which a material emits a disproportionately large number—an ‘avalanche’—of photons when illuminated above a threshold intensity. Until ...

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Abstracts included telltale words, such as ‘unparalleled’ and ‘invaluable’, that are common in text generated by large language models.

As was realized after the Second World War, peace and prosperity stem from partnership and sustained investment in human development ...

The scale of funding cuts in the United States means that countless scientists will lose their jobs. It would be naive not to start thinking about alternative career paths.

As was realized after the Second World War, peace and prosperity stem from partnership and sustained investment in human development.

The cover shows a satellite image of circular patches of irrigated land in the Western Desert in Egypt. Such land reclamation is one of many strategies that ...

Lukewarm efforts to get Britain to save on the energy bill, and a mysterious string of house-fly deaths, in our weekly dip into Nature ’s archive.

The cover shows a composite near-infrared image of Herbig-Haro 211, a striking interstellar jet emanating from a young star in the Perseus Molecular Cloud.

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Many potential applications for artificial intelligence require making real-time decisions. Car racing, in which drivers must undertake complex tactical ...

To tackle the challenges facing society energy, water, climate, food, health scientists and social scientists must work together. Yet ...