David Adam

Move over silicon: scientists want to use neurons to make powerful computers with minuscule energy needs.

The British government wants the country to be home to a supersized tech firm within the next decade.

The covid-19 pandemic opened the door to once-controversial human challenge trials. Now, volunteers are willingly catching norovirus and influenza to reveal how our immune systems really fight back

Nuclear fusion. People on Mars. Artificial general intelligence. These are just some of the advances that could come by the mid-century mark.

Artificial-intelligence models will supposedly take over the world, but AI innovator Luc Julia tells Nature that they're little more than glorified pocket calculators.

Hungary's new leader has promised to restore democracy — but researchers say that rebuilding science will take more than reversing Victor Orbán's laws.

Digital distractions are vying for people's focus, but our underlying capacity to pay attention seems to be undiminished.

Digital distractions can undermine our focus, but research suggests that our inherent capacity to pay attention hasn't diminished

Claims about the upper limits to human lifespan are characterized by hype, deficient data and shoddy science, says longevity researcher Saul Newman.

The technology can whip up spurious findings and pollute survey responses, but it could also make research more rigorous.