Stories by Nature magazine

The origin of the decimal point, a powerful calculation tool, has been traced back to a mathematician who lived during the Italian Renaissance

The engineered “firefly petunia” emits a continuous green glow thanks to genes from a light-up mushroom

A jury awarded Mann more than $1 million—raising hopes for scientists who are attacked politically because of their work

A feasibility study on CERN’s Future Circular Collider identifies where and how the machine could be built—but its construction is far from assured

AI helps decipher the text of a 2,000-year-old scroll burned at Pompeii

The Israel Defense Forces has confirmed it is dumping seawater into the web of tunnels beneath Gaza, which scientists say may contaminate the aquifer that supplies most of Gaza’s water

Measles cases have ticked up in the U.K. following lower rates of MMR vaccination, and the U.S. could see similar outbreaks

Injections of no-longer-used growth hormone derived from cadavers may have “seeded” Alzheimer’s in some people, small study suggests

After a nine-day shutdown, the upside-down lunar lander received enough sunlight to power up again

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna could discover gigantic ripples in spacetime from merging supermassive black holes and more

Ancient DNA recovered from Brazilian remains shows that syphilis and other treponemal diseases originated some 10,000 years earlier than previously thought

The world’s deepest and largest underground laboratory is scaling up its search for dark matter

Researchers have doubted how useful AI protein-structure tool AlphaFold will be in discovering medicines—now they are learning how to deploy it effectively

Proteins involved in immunity, clotting and inflammation could help to unravel the complexity of long COVID

A method that provides cloned embryos with a healthy placenta has led to the first cloned rhesus monkey that has survived to adulthood and could pave the way for more research involving the primates

Permian period petroleum helped to preserve minute scraps of pebbly hide that probably belonged to a lizardlike creature

A huge cache of ancient genomes spanning tens of thousands of years reveals the roots of traits in modern Europeans

Large language model does better than human mathematicians trying to solve combinatorics problems inspired by the card game Set

Ten years after cannabis was first legalized for recreational use in adults, scientists are struggling to provide evidence-based recommendations about the risks to young people

The first global declaration on reducing emissions from food production is a start, researchers say—but it sidesteps contentious issues such as meat consumption

The company announces its latest huge chip—but will now focus on developing smaller chips with a fresh approach to “error correction”

Massive buried structures at Gunung Padang in Indonesia have been described as much older than Egypt’s great pyramids in a new study, but some doubt they’re even human constructions

A surge in respiratory disease in China appears to be caused by known pathogens, but the pattern of infections is still unusual

Heat pumps are ubiquitous in the form of air conditioners. Scientists just invented one that avoids harmful refrigerant gases