If you suffer a heart attack in a crowd, you would be less likely to get help than if there were only one or two people around you. Copied under Creative Commons Attribution v4.0 License

Teenagers are often thought of as reckless risk-takers. Nature Video asks a neuroscientist and a group of adolescents ​what's really behind risky behaviour. This video was reproduced with permission and

These stretchy skins help robots move across rough surfaces, and potentially promote exploration and environmental monitoring. Copied under Creative Commons Attribution v4.0 License

Cognition If You Think It's Love, Switch to Decaf: How We Misinterpret Emotional Arousal Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Email Print Share via Google+ Stumble Upon Psychology shows a

A pop culture icon and ground-breaking physicist, Stephen Hawking is one of the most prominent figures in modern science. Nature Video explores three of the publications that shaped his career and his

As we look back on 2017, it is once again time to commemorate some of the remarkable women recently passed who made critical contributions to the advancement of science, technology, engineering, and

Women from across the world continue to be underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). In the U.S.—where women make up nearly half of the workforce—they were merely 26

A century ago, in 1918, the U.S. started the collective clock-changing ritual known as daylight saving time, or DST. Today more than 70 countries observe the practice, although how it is implemented has

Once they “understand” a topic or game completely, computers can calculate solutions with stunning speed, far faster than the wetware in our skulls. AlphaGo Zero, from British company DeepMind, accumulated

Five thousand years ago nomadic horseback riders from the Ukrainian steppe charged through Europe and parts of Asia. They brought with them a language that is the root of many of those spoken today—including

Scientists have long thought the ocean sunfish (Mola mola) was the largest of the bony fishes, a group of animals with skeletons made of bone instead of cartilage. It turns out they were wrong. A research

Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evans. Portfolio, 2018 ($27) In the earliest days of computing, rooms of women performed manual calculations for research projects

An ascendant aide in the Trump White House has warned of the threats posed by climate change, has argued for taxing carbon, has promoted wind power and was even endorsed by the Sierra Club. The political

The observation that the human brain churns out new neurons throughout life is one of the biggest neuroscience discoveries of the past 20 years. The idea has captured immense popular and scientific

This is what Earth looks like through a planet hunter's eyes. Our home planet blazes like a cosmic lighthouse in a photo taken by NASA's Kepler space telescope, which has discovered more than 2,500 alien

I work hard to maintain my optimistic outlook. Wishful thinking works. The first step toward building a more healthy, peaceful, just world is to believe we can do it. So how do I deal with all the bad

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. A Soviet-designed “Novichok” chemical is the nerve agent responsible for poisoning

As yet another powerful nor’easter slams New England with wind and snow, some scientists suggest that the storm—and other extreme winter weather—could be linked to climate change in the Arctic. It’s a

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday charged Theranos and CEO Elizabeth Holmes with fraud, capping off a remarkable downfall for a once high-flying company that promised to revolutionize

Maybe it’s my instinctive distrust of bored billionaires treating the world as their playground, but I’m always dubious about Elon Musk’s various moonshot projects. He seems to be enjoying it all a little