Stories by Nature magazine

U.S. president-elect also elevates the position to the cabinet for the first time

Measures meant to tame the coronavirus pandemic are quashing influenza and most other respiratory diseases, which could have wide-ranging implications

Researchers race to determine why variants identified in Britain and South Africa spread so quickly and whether they’ll compromise vaccines

Scientists seek guidance on exploring frozen caches at the lunar poles responsibly

Gonzalo Moratorio assists his country in steering a more adept response than that mounted in Argentina and Brazil

A look at apps that predict the chance of infection and illness, depending on what you’re doing and where you are

Two RNA vaccines will be useful as U.S. infections surge, but the speedy authorizations complicate clinical trials

With the festive season ahead, Nature examines what is known about the risks of COVID spread and how researchers will spend their time off

Living things depend on water, but it breaks down DNA and other key molecules. So how did the earliest cells deal with the water paradox?

Scientists hope the dark grains from asteroid Ryugu will improve their understanding of the solar system’s formation

Google’s deep-learning program for determining the 3-D shapes of proteins stands to transform biology, scientists say

COVID-19 is straining African food security but also presents an opportunity for change

A new satellite image reveals the damage that shut down the facility, ending an era in astronomical observation

Rapid antigen tests are designed to tell in a few minutes whether someone is infectious. Will they be game changers?

Paratek Pharmaceuticals made a life-saving drug and got it approved. So why is the company’s long-term survival still in question?

Debate continues over a controversial report of phosphine in the planet’s atmosphere, as researchers reanalyze data and find a fainter signal

Preliminary data show that the immunization is 94 percent effective and seems to prevent severe infections

Chang’e-5 has just one lunar day to collect material from a previously unexplored region of the moon’s near side

Mobile phone data suggest restaurants, gyms and cafés can be COVID hotspots—and reveal strategies for limiting spread

The new president has the opportunity to reverse four years of anti-science policies—but he has a hard road ahead as he inherits a nation divided

Astrophysicists now have enough black-hole mergers to map their frequency over the cosmos’s history

Detective work reconstructs the final movements of the European Space Agency’s Philae probe

It’s too soon to say whether COVID is seasonal like the flu—but where clusters aren’t under control, infections will continue to swell

Why proposals to largely let the virus run its course—embraced by Donald Trump’s administration and others—are a false promise