This Nature Q&A series celebrates people who fight racism in science and champion inclusion, highlighting initiatives that could be applied to other scientific workplaces.

In 2018, Nature began highlighting a few of the technologies they expect to make big advancesin the year ahead.

China's status at the summit of the Nature Index remains unrivalled as the gap between it and the United States grows.

A diagnosis of cancer still strikes fear into many people.

China is one of the world’s major producers of fruit. Its food and agricultural scientists are leading a drive to develop sustainable methods to produce and process fruit.

These articles profile individual scientists with unusual career histories, achievements, skills or outside interests.

MoTrPAC is a national research consortium designed to discover and characterize the molecular map that underlies the effects of physical activity in humans.

The Baltic country marks 20 years of European Union membership this year with a push to retain homegrown talent, persuade diaspora scientists to return, and attract researchers from abroad, lured by a collaborative research culture.

Fraught societal debates, particularly surrounding gender identity, are raising new questions about how to best take account of sex and gender in research, both in human health and elsewhere – even as scientists are increasingly recognizing that they must move beyond paradigms based on extrapolating findings from men or male animals.

Switzerland has enjoyed a warm relationship with the rest of Europe for decades – but how has that influenced the research done in the country?

To fully understand human health and allow everyone access to advances in biomedicine, research programmes must include participants from diverse backgrounds.

From ecosystem change to natural hazards, studies of the fundamentals of the planet we live on have never been so important.