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Nature’s pages feature a look at nautical archaeology in a museum setting and musings about the molecule anthracene.

Saudi Arabia’s Camel Site is a testimony to the dexterity of prehistoric sculptors.

Remains discovered by schoolchildren on a fossil-hunting trip belonged to an extinct giant bird.

Exposure to stronger artificial light led to greater disruption of the insects’ night music.

Congress has eviscerated the US president’s pledge to upgrade research infrastructure at universities that serve underrepresented communities.

The United Nations forecasts that nearly 11 billion people will be living on Earth at the end of the century, but other demographic research groups project that population will peak earlier and at a much lower level.

Former Nigeria CDC leader Chikwe Ihekweazu talks with Nature about the COVID crisis, and strengthening global response to future public-health emergencies.

US President Joe Biden’s environmental-justice adviser says: tackle inequality and global warming together.

Certain cancers cause people to weaken and waste away. A mouse model of this points to tumour-induced blockade of molecules that normally protect muscle innervation and mass. Will the discovery lead to therapies for this deadly condition?

Museum curator Douglas Russell catalogues and maintains specimens that offer a glimpse into the breeding behaviours of birds both living and extinct.

Scientists welcome the move, but say the funder should have gone further by also reconsidering grant applications previously ruled ineligible.

Of hearts, and myriad other ways natural selection has hit on to sustain multicellular life.

A child-size dose of the Pfizer vaccine is safe and generates a robust antibody response in children ages 5 to 11, say the companies. Plus, the mysterious hotness of the Sun’s corona.

Legal wins and federal budget proposals could address years of underfunding.