Stories by Nature magazine

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

After decades of assuming that pain processing is equivalent in all sexes, scientists are finding that different biological pathways can produce an “ouch!”

An emerging class of drug could send some of medicine’s most troublesome protein targets to the cellular rubbish bin

A large-scale study shows that weight gain in rural areas is the main factor currently driving the obesity epidemic

Landmark UN-backed report finds that agriculture is one of the biggest threats to Earth’s ecosystems

Spacecraft will return samples to Earth and be open to researchers around the world

LIGO and Virgo observatories have spotted ripples from what could be the first-ever detection of this long-sought event

Next-generation mobile technology could interfere with crucial satellite-based Earth observations

The vaccine is up to 40 percent effective at preventing malaria in young children

NASA′s InSight lander hears ripples of seismic energy rippling through Mars

Treatment restores immune-system function in young children with severe disorder

The restoration of some structures and cellular functions in pig brains hours after death could intensify debates about when human organs should be removed for transplantation, warn Stuart Youngner and Insoo Hyun

Researchers need guidance on animal use and the many issues opened up by a new study on whole-brain restoration, argue Nita A. Farahany, Henry T. Greely and Charles M. Giattino

Researchers are narrowing down their measurements of how long the subatomic particle survives on its own

Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft did not find the gas in red planet’s atmosphere during its first months of operation

The Nobel Prize–winning biologist pioneered the use of C. elegans as an animal model

Hayabusa2 released the projectile to make a crater on the asteroid's surface

Detailed data on space-time ripples are set to pour in from LIGO and Virgo’s upgraded detectors

Abel-prize winner Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck built bridges between analysis, geometry and physics

NASA mission finds asteroid Bennu littered with big boulders and spraying out particles

CERN-like organization will oversee the construction and operation of the powerful Square Kilometer Array

Surging conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is hampering efforts to stamp out the virus

Synthetic DNA seems to behave like the natural variety, suggesting a broader swathe of chemicals could support life than the four that evolved on Earth

Data from the Gaia spacecraft are radically transforming how we see the evolution of our galaxy