Controversial Telescope Set to Begin Construction in Hawaii
The Thirty Meter Telescope project has faced years of legal challenges over planned Mauna Kea site
Stories by Nature magazine
Can NASA Really Return People to the Moon by 2024?
Donald Trump wants U.S. astronauts back on the Moon. But his ambitious plan faces formidable political, financial and technical challenges
Climate Change Made Europe's Mega Heat Wave Five Times More Likely
Scientists raced to study whether the scorching temperatures last week were linked to global warming
The Doctor Who Beat Ebola--and Inspires Other Survivors to Care for the Sick
Maurice Kakule Mutsunga has started a motorcycle ambulance service and is working to dispel rumors about the virus
Meet the Ebola Workers Battling a Virus in a War Zone
Nature’s Amy Maxmen reports from the front line of the crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Discrimination Drives LGBT+ Scientists to Think About Quitting
Despite progress, many physical scientists from sexual and gender minorities experience exclusion or harassment at work, finds UK survey
Mars Rover Detects "Excitingly Huge" Methane Spike
NASA’s Curiosity rover reports the highest-ever reading of the gas at the planet’s surface
Trump Administration Relaxes Emissions Limits on Power Plants
A new rule for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency allows states to set their own limits on carbon-emission levels
China Reveals Scientific Experiments for Next Space Station
Projects will probe topics including DNA mutation, fire behavior and the birth of stars
New Space Telescope Will Map the Universe in High-Energy X-rays
A German-Russian mission called SRG will detect millions of supermassive black holes, many new to science, and hundreds of thousands of stars
Big Changes Needed to Fight Harassment, Group Tells US Biomedical Agency
Advisory panel says US National Institutes of Health should treat sexual harassment more seriously and do more to help affected researchers
Venus, Earth's Evil Twin, Beckons Space Agencies
Once a water-rich Eden, the hellish planet could reveal how to find habitable worlds around distant stars
Russian Biologist Plans More CRISPR-Edited Babies
The proposal follows a Chinese scientist who claimed to have created twins from edited embryos last year
Trump Administration Halts Fetal-Tissue Research by Government Scientists
Policy also requires ethics review for any grant applications to the National Institutes of Health that involve fetal tissue
CERN's Next Big Thing
After 10 years in operation, the largest particle accelerator in the world is undergoing major upgrades, and researchers are throwing their effort behind new future technologies
What Are the Biological Consequences of Homelessness?
Understanding why living on the street seems to cause rapid aging could help homeless people—and governments
Anthropocene Now: Influential Panel Votes to Recognize Earth's New Epoch
The atomic age would mark the start of the current geologic time unit, if proposal receives final approval
The Pain Gap
After decades of assuming that pain processing is equivalent in all sexes, scientists are finding that different biological pathways can produce an “ouch!”
The Protein Slayers
An emerging class of drug could send some of medicine’s most troublesome protein targets to the cellular rubbish bin
A Question of Control
Clinical-trial participants and their carers are gaining influence over how experiments are run. As they take to social media, that could make things messy for the science
