Stories by Nature magazine

Construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope was supposed to start on July 15

The World Health Organization’s action could increase the resources available to fight a year-old outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The fossils provide the first clear example of group nesting activities in dinosaurs

The Thirty Meter Telescope project has faced years of legal challenges over planned Mauna Kea site

Donald Trump wants U.S. astronauts back on the Moon. But his ambitious plan faces formidable political, financial and technical challenges

Scientists raced to study whether the scorching temperatures last week were linked to global warming

Maurice Kakule Mutsunga has started a motorcycle ambulance service and is working to dispel rumors about the virus

Nature’s Amy Maxmen reports from the front line of the crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Despite progress, many physical scientists from sexual and gender minorities experience exclusion or harassment at work, finds UK survey

NASA’s Curiosity rover reports the highest-ever reading of the gas at the planet’s surface

A new rule for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency allows states to set their own limits on carbon-emission levels

Projects will probe topics including DNA mutation, fire behavior and the birth of stars

A German-Russian mission called SRG will detect millions of supermassive black holes, many new to science, and hundreds of thousands of stars

Advisory panel says US National Institutes of Health should treat sexual harassment more seriously and do more to help affected researchers

Once a water-rich Eden, the hellish planet could reveal how to find habitable worlds around distant stars

The proposal follows a Chinese scientist who claimed to have created twins from edited embryos last year

Policy also requires ethics review for any grant applications to the National Institutes of Health that involve fetal tissue

After 10 years in operation, the largest particle accelerator in the world is undergoing major upgrades, and researchers are throwing their effort behind new future technologies

Understanding why living on the street seems to cause rapid aging could help homeless people—and governments

The atomic age would mark the start of the current geologic time unit, if proposal receives final approval

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

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

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

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