Recent work in humans and mice highlights how exposure to environmental microbes helps protect against allergies and other inflammatory diseases.

Time spent in natural environments is linked to improved physical and mental health, but researchers are only now beginning to dig into the mechanisms.

In a virtual reality experiment, participants recovered faster from a small electric shock when they could smell natural scents than when they could smell urban odors.

Research has repeatedly suggested that spending time in natural environments improves mental and physical well-being. Now, scientists are gathering the data needed to incorporate this phenomenon in health-care guidelines.

Unlike biotech tools adapted from nature, the invention was entirely conceived by humans and represents one of the few proteins made from scratch in the lab.

A pilot project between the scholarly publisher and the academic networking platform launched last week.

Authors submitting to Nature journals can soon request double-blind reviews.

Macmillan Science and Education, the publisher of Nature and Scientific American, will join forces with Springer Science+Business Media.

Users will be able to access articles dating back to 1869 from the journal and its sister titles, but cannot copy, print, or download the materials.