Stories by Nature magazine

NASA’s Mars InSight lander has detected more than 300 quakes and traced some back to their source

Cabinet greenlights $600-million Hyper-Kamiokande experiment, which scientists hope will bring revolutionary discoveries

The OSIRIS-REx probe will attempt to sample rocks and soil from a crater in the asteroid Bennu’s northern hemisphere

CHEOPS will be the first mission designed to study—rather than find—alien worlds

Analysis finds that the planet’s protective shield was in place by at least 3.7 billion years ago, as early life arose

Europe’s space agency is set to receive 45% more money than in the previous three-year budget

The MineRL competition encourages coders to devise programs that learn by example

Researchers grapple with the meaning of the first objects entering our solar system from beyond

Two researchers in Japan supply the world’s physicists with a gem that has accelerated graphene’s electronics boom

The science is immature, and a multipurpose quantum computer doesn’t yet exist. But that isn’t stopping investors from pouring cash into quantum start-ups

Meteorologists say international standards for wireless technology could degrade crucial satellite measurements of water vapor

Japan has turned regenerative medicine into a regulatory free-for-all. Patients across the world could pay the price

The global rise of “vaccine hesitancy” is changing the landscape of disease transmission

Everything from bacon consumption to kidney function can skew cannabidiol dosing

Models of the behavior of the oceans with higher spatial resolution could lead to more accurate climate predictions

To predict how much climate change will raise sea level, researchers are studying ice shelves, where vast expanses of ice meet the ocean.

As universities shut down, researchers are demonstrating—and meeting with lawmakers to figure out if science can help solve socioeconomic inequality

Precise measurement affirms that the particle’s radius is smaller than physicists once thought

DeepMind’s AlphaStar beat all but the very best humans at the fast-paced sci-fi video game

Scientists have spotted signs of water as the object 2I/Borisov streaks toward the sun

The company says that its quantum computer is the first to perform a calculation that would be practically impossible for a classical machine

Denis Rebrikov says that he does not plan to implant gene-edited embryos until he gets regulatory approval

With decades still to go until the first general-purpose quantum computers, the race is on to make today’s systems useful