Sustainable use is when biodiversity and ecosystem functioning are maintained while contributing to human wellbeing.

As everyone shifts back into gear after the summer break, we have put together a list of research and innovation topics coming up over the next weeks and months, to help you sift through the deluge of announcements due in September and beyond.

The policy, hailed by researchers as “transformational,” will be fully in place by 2026 and make publicly financed research available immediately at no cost.

Taking on imperial knowledge, cultural denial and dogmatic absolutism requires authors who can find their way around tricky narrative strategies.

Voyager 1 continues to explore the cosmos along with its twin probe, Voyager 2.

For almost 120 years, the writing system known as "Linear Elamite" was considered illegible. Now a team of archaeologists claims to have partially deciphered the writing system. But other researchers are more hesitant.

More Americans blame corporations, not individuals, for climate change, a new poll shows.

The infrared images, taken in July, capture unprecedented views of the biggest planet's storms, moon and surrounding rings

As a schoolboy, I put little effort into my homework. But a long night wrestling with Euclidean geometry led to a career in nuclear physics - and a more resilient personality

Climate change is projected to significantly alter the yield and price of wheat in the coming years. Prices for the grain are likely to change unevenly and increase in much of the Global South, enhancing existing inequalities.

The document, which was facilitated by the European Commission, establishes new benchmarks regarding how research assessments should be performed.

As NASA takes the first steps to implement the planetary science decadal survey, the agency is warning funding will not match projections.

For the first time, China has slightly edged out the United States in the number of most cited papers, a key measure of research impact.

The UK government, raising the political heat over Brexit, began legal proceedings against the European Union for blocking its membership in the €95.5 billion research programme, Horizon Europe.

Biden signs historic legislation to pour billions into fighting climate change as the global temperature continues to rise.

UC Berkeley scientists and students looked at current artificial intelligence translation systems and found that, though flawed, they have become good enough for researchers to broadly translate their work into other languages, at least the languages of the coauthors and the country in which the research was conducted. One problem: how to get permissions to translate and share, and where will these translations live online.

After Russia's invasion, politicians promised to boost military research funding - but policy specialists aren't convinced that a rapid change lies ahead.

The recently passed CHIPS and Science Act promises billions of dollars in funding to support science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) research and production at government agencies, private companies, and colleges and universities across the U.S. It also includes provisions to increase diversity in STEM education and the workforce and to promote socioeconomic development for underserved communities. 

Here's what the science says about driving while high on marijuana. In short: It's complicated.

It is suggested to revamp the peer review process to make it less about tearing down the work of others, and more about helping authors improve their papers.

The psychologist Steven Pinker has long believed we should be more optimistic - and even current crises do not dissuade him.

The most powerful rocket ever developed by the US space agency is being rolled to the launch pad.

Researchers of the ETH Zurich and the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS have closely analysed the characteristics of cosmic dust based on laboratory experiments and measurement data collected by space missions.

British foreign secretary triggers formal dispute proceedings with Brussels over British access to EU science programs.

Though fictional, the book raises a very real question: Can the human capacity to imagine alternate climate futures actually help generate new, more hopeful realities?

CubeSats packed on Artemis 1 will target lunar ice-if their batteries don't fail them

Between 2018 and 2020 China published 23.4% of the world's scientific papers, eclipsing the US.

In the first of a four-post series, we explore: the phenomenon of diversity tax and its impact on marginalized individuals.

Nature investigates multiple instances of scholars on working visas experiencing abuse and salary discrimination.

Most international scholars do not report experiences of bullying because they fear retaliation, including threats to cancel visas. But they can take action.