As the year draws to a close, we take a look at some of the biggest science stories of the year, and why they matter.

This is an important contribution that largely confirms prior evidence that word recognition - a cornerstone of development - improves across early childhood and is related to vocabulary growth. This ...

An inherent principle of publication is that others should be able to replicate and build upon the authors' published claims. A condition of publication in a Nature Portfolio journal is that authors ...

Parsl extends parallelism in Python beyond a single computer. You can use Parsl just like Python's parallel executors but across multiple cores and nodes. However, the real power of Parsl is in ...

Objective As ‘critical illness’ and ‘critical care’ lack consensus definitions, this study aimed to explore how the concepts’ are used, describe their defining attributes, and propose potential ...