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Naturally occurring radioactive material
Naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) is material whose radioactivity comes only from natural radionuclides, principally uranium and thorium series isotopes and potassium-40; when industry concentrates them, it is called TENORM.
Naturalness
Naturalness is a criterion in particle physics that a theory's parameters should not require extreme fine-tuning, underlying the Higgs hierarchy problem but called into question after the LHC found no expected new physics.
NaturalSpeech 3
NaturalSpeech 3 is a zero-shot text-to-speech system from Microsoft Research, announced in 2024 and published at ICML. It splits speech into content, prosody, timbre, and acoustic details, synthesized by separate diffusion models.
Nature
Nature is the material world and its processes considered independently of human artifice, and in philosophy the concept framing what counts as natural rather than artificial or supernatural.
Nature (essay)
Nature (1836), Ralph Waldo Emerson's anonymous first book published by James Munroe, Boston, is the manifesto of American Transcendentalism, arguing for an original relation to the universe through nature as symbol of spirit.
Nature (journal)
Nature is a weekly international scientific journal publishing peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology, founded in London in 1869 and ranking among the most prestigious general-science journals.
Nature Biotechnology
Nature Biotechnology (Nat. Biotechnol., ISSN 1087-0156) is Springer Nature's monthly peer-reviewed journal covering the science and business of biotechnology; founded as Bio/Technology in 1983, renamed 1996, 2025 impact factor 44.5.
Nature Boy
Nature Boy is a 1947 song by eden ahbez (Alexander Aberle), made famous by Nat King Cole's 1948 number-one Capitol recording; a jazz standard subject of a Yablokoff plagiarism suit.
Nature Cat
Nature Cat is a PBS KIDS animated series (premiered November 25, 2015) by Spiffy Pictures' Rudman brothers, following house cat Fred's outdoor adventures with Squeeks, Hal, Daisy, and Ronald for ages 3-8.
Nature Communications
Nature Communications is a fully open access, multidisciplinary scientific journal published by Springer Nature. Launched in April 2010, it publishes research across the biological, physical, chemical, and social sciences.
Nature conservation
Nature conservation is the practice of protecting, managing, and restoring the living world; its central tool is the protected area, with over 200,000 covering about 15% of land by 2016.
Nature Energy (company)
Nature Energy (Nature Energy Biogas A/S) was a Danish biogas producer founded in 1979 that became Europe's largest renewable natural gas producer before Shell acquired it in 2023.
Nature Genetics
Nature Genetics is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing research in genetics and genomics, launched in April 1992 as the first of Nature's discipline-specific sister journals.
Nature Materials
Nature Materials is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the full spectrum of materials science and engineering. Launched in 2002, it was the Nature Publishing Group's first physical-sciences research journal.
Nature Medicine
Nature Medicine is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by Springer Nature that covers translational and clinical research, launched in January 1995 as an early sister journal of Nature.
Nature Methods
Nature Methods is a monthly peer-reviewed journal in Springer Nature's Nature Portfolio that publishes novel life-science methods, requiring strong validation and performance comparisons, with a 2024 impact factor of 32.1.
Nature photography
Nature photography is a genre devoted to plants, animals, landscapes, and natural phenomena, serving both as an art form and as a tool of science and conservation.
Nature Physics
Nature Physics is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Nature covering pure and applied physics, launched in October 2005 as part of the Nature portfolio.
Nature poetry
Nature poetry, known in German as Naturlyrik, is poetry that considers nature as subject matter and inspiration; Goethe's "Mayfest" is regarded as the paradigm of German experiential nature poetry.
Nature Portfolio
Nature Portfolio is the Springer Nature journal group built around Nature (1869), formerly Nature Research (2016–2020). It spans 66 Nature-branded journals, the Communications and npj series, Scientific Reports and Scientific Data, with APCs from €2,490 to €10,850.
Nature protection
Nature protection: laws, policies, and protected areas conserving species and habitats. Covers legal mechanisms, the 30x30 Kunming-Montreal target, protected area effectiveness, the EU Nature Restoration Regulation, and IUCN and TNC history.
Nature reserve
A nature reserve, also known as a wildlife sanctuary or wildlife preserve, is a protected area of land or water managed to conserve wildlife and habitats, with Yellowstone designated in 1872 as an early landmark.
Nature Reviews Cardiology
Nature Reviews Cardiology (Nat. Rev. Cardiol.), ISSN 1759-5002/1759-5010, is a Springer Nature monthly review journal launched in 2004 as Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine, publishing commissioned, peer-reviewed non-primary cardiology content with a 2025 impact factor of 50.2.
Nature versus nurture
Nature versus nurture: the debate over genetic versus environmental causes of trait variation, framed by Galton's 1875 twin studies, quantified through heritability, and reframed as gene-environment interaction.
Nature writing
Nature writing is a nonfiction prose genre blending lyricism and personal voice with natural-history fact, a tradition tracing to Gilbert White's 1789 Natural History of Selborne.
Naturgy
Naturgy, formerly Gas Natural Fenosa, is a Spanish utility supplying gas and electricity in Spain and Latin America, tracing its origins to 1843 in Barcelona.
Naturgy Energy Group
Naturgy Energy Group, formerly Gas Natural SDG, is a Spanish multinational gas and electric utility serving over 17 million customers across Spain, Europe, and Latin America.
Naturi Naughton
Naturi Naughton (Naturi Naughton-Lewis), born 1984, East Orange, NJ, is an American singer-actress: 3LW member, Lil' Kim in Notorious, Denise in Fame, Tasha St. Patrick on Power, and 2026 Broadway Jordan Baker in The Great Gatsby.
Naturism
Naturism, or nudism, is the practice of non-sexual communal nudity, defined by the International Naturist Federation in 1974. It emerged in 19th-century Germany's Lebensreform movement and research links it to improved body image, self-esteem, and life satisfaction.
Naturopathy
Naturopathy, also called naturopathic medicine, is a medical system from traditional practices and 19th-century European health approaches that aims to treat disease by addressing root causes through diet, exercise, and stress management.