Stories by Nature magazine

Analyses of governing documents from 194 countries could help people fighting for human and environmental rights

National Science Foundation will look for partners to provide extra financial support for Puerto Rico facility

TB remains a big killer despite the development of a better test for detecting the disease

Complex chemistry in the dwarf planet’s upper atmosphere may explain one of its biggest mysteries

Beam generator puts country in elite company for doing experiments in materials science and other fields

Large Hadron Collider’s failure to detect new particles beyond the Higgs has eroded the case for Japan’s proposed linear accelerator

A former pharmaceutical boss will help navigate the U.K.'s exit from the European Union

Physicists begin to embrace alternative explanations for the missing material

Success for the “Arctic apple” could herald a new wave of lab-grown foods

Volunteers' use of certain words predicted stress-related changes in gene expression better than their self-reported feelings

Studies find that species diversity and antibiotics influence cutting-edge treatments

Representative Lamar Smith, a Republican from Texas, will not run for re-election in 2018

The first new species of great ape described in more than eight decades faces threats to its habitat 

The controversial approach aims to rejuvenate old tissue

Researchers use muon detectors to find a hidden 30-meter-long space, which could help reveal how the 4,500-year-old monument was built 

Multi-telescope project has ambitious goals and a big price tag

The young animals crowdsource the pitch of their calls from colony members

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says the policy would address potential conflicts of interest, but scientists raise alarms

Hints emerge that past environments could have influenced psychiatric disorders

Critics say the organization is unduly secretive

Scientists scramble to avert disruption to dataset that has tracked polar ice since the late 1970s

Reconstructions of single cells highlight how far they can reach into the brain

Aid organizations have been piloting a nimble approach to cut through the fog of war

Feathered carnivore was dark on top and light underneath, with a raccoon-like face.