Society articles from across Nature Portfolio

This Review examines the opportunities and challenges introduced by new datasets and computational techniques in urban crime research, and outlines future directions for leveraging these advances effectively.

The Global Dietary Database for Impact Assessments provides information on what people eat across countries and demographic groups by integrating data on food availability, consumption and waste, as well as energy needs. It supports analyses of the impacts of diets on health, environmental and economic outcomes.

The growth of suburban areas increases car use, raises emissions and affects social cohesion, but it is unclear whether this is driven by suburban design or distance from the city centre. This study estimates the social and environmental effects of the garden city design concept on neighbourhoods in the USA.

In Human-LLMs interaction, LLMs offer sycophantic responses regardless of human communication style. This Perspective proposes that interacting with LLMs may be detrimental to the norms of human-human interaction.

This study presents neuroGravity—a model that merges physics with machine learning to reconstruct mobility networks in data-scarce regions. It provides crucial tools for equitable urban planning, revealing income segregation as a core determinant of human flows.

This Perspective explores the extent to which AI democratizes knowledge work and discusses potential intervention strategies for addressing social and place-based divides.

Researchers have a responsibility to search for consensus on this crucial issue, both for future generations and the future of our planet.

Supporting charities can bring career benefits and provide valuable social connections.

Nature staff discuss the landmark moment when a mammal was first cloned from an adult cell — plus, the first direct observation of ocean-floor crust being created.

A shoebox-sized detector satellite could identify the telltale signal of a hidden nuclear device — plus, how Indigenous plant knowledge is under threat.

Ryan Rising creates programmes that help people who have been incarcerated to access academic opportunities.