Legislation on the testing of self-driving cars does not address liability and safety concerns, warn Ashley Nunes, Bryan Reimer and Joseph F. Coughlin.
Scientists call on intergovernmental biodiversity body to boost influence and shift focus to policy development.
Artificial intelligence could speed up metagenomic studies that look for species unknown to science.
Reforms put in place after Ebola epidemic in West Africa have built Nigeria's capacity to diagnose diseases and track their spread.
Blockchain could let people offer health records for research — without losing control over them.
Stalling the fastest flows of ice into the oceans would buy us a few centuries to deal with climate change and protect coasts, argue John C. Moore and colleagues.
Cash will help lower the cost of solar technology in developing countries.
With corporate participation, researchers seek to build a pilot fusion-energy plant within 15 years.
Ophira Ginsburg, a leading medical oncologist interested in global cancer control, reflects on the need to encourage women to lead change as global-health professionals.
Nature Sustainability – launched in January 2018 – publishes significant original research from a broad range of natural, social and engineering fields coming together to shed light on the connections across natural, socioeconomic and technological systems, and to identify ways to ensure human life will thrive within the biophysical limits of the planet. To learn more: nature.com/natsustain.
With cancer cases spiking globally, a global fund for cancer could begin to turn the tide
A global network of 1000 ground stations, combined with satellite data, would create a first-ever global Earth observatory.
By using the sort of “cheap talk” that people use to strike up strategic collaboration, algorithms can learn to collaborate strategically with people.