Stories by Nature magazine

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

Misaligned stacks of the wonder material exhibit superconductivity and other curious properties

An Israeli firm is sending a privately built craft to the moon—and leading a fresh era of exploration

Abandoned projects and delayed research have become common problems as security issues crop up across the country

Researchers are battling to identify and assess a worrying class of persistent chemicals

Death rates have dropped during past economic downturns, even as many health trends have worsened. Researchers are scrambling to decipher lessons before the next big recession

Nick Sireau’s quest to give his sons weed killer could help thousands struggling with rare genetic conditions

AI enhancement and a virtual time machine are included in the short list of pitches

A decree by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has established a national space agency, but many details are still to come

Sophisticated algorithms could help DNA-synthesis companies avoid making dangerous organisms on demand

Rather than building objects layer by layer, the printer creates whole structures by projecting light into a resin that solidifies

An investigation by Chinese authorities found He Jiankui broke national regulations in his controversial gene-editing work

Researchers are trying to shift Mexico’s oyamel firs to higher elevations to help them weather warming temperatures

Drought conditions and poor water management have contributed to the events

Understanding how microbial communities change after a fire can help researchers to predict how an ecosystem will recover

The proposed facility would become the most powerful—and most expensive—collider ever built

A second wave of closures looms as the government funding fight barrels towards a record-breaking fourth week

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has identified at least eight planets, including one with a mass more than 20 times that of Earth

Bounty includes second known example of a repeating burst

Close-up images from NASA’s New Horizons probe show the space rock has two distinct lobes

Senate confirms meteorologist Kelvin Droegemeier to lead the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Physicists at the LIGO experiment have now detected 11 cosmic events that produce ripples in the fabric of space-time

Astronomers peer inside planetary nurseries for clues about how our solar system and others came to be

High-pressure hydrogen materials could be a step toward a new era of superconductivity