Stories by Nature magazine

One of the most ambitious EU ‘Flagship’ schemes yet has picked 20 projects, aiming to turn weird physics into useful products

Little-studied ethnic groups are helping researchers to understand the movements of people who lived on the continent tens of thousands of years ago

The warming power of the sun could help to explain why the level of gas in the atmosphere changes with the seasons

Physicists say this futuristic, super-secure network could be useful long before it reaches technological maturity

As BepiColombo heads to long-neglected Mercury, a look at which planets attract scientific missions, and why

The geology governing “sequence” quakes suggests scientists could, in theory, forecast the follow-up quakes

Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male

European and Japanese double probe, BepiColombo, will take seven years to reach the solar system’s innermost planet

The Breakthrough awards, each worth U.S. $3 million, honor advances in the life sciences, physics and mathematics

This new approach to predictive medicine takes genomics research by storm, but still generates controversy

A malfunctioning gyroscope has temporarily hobbled the aging space observatory

Humanity has a limited window to avoid the more dire effects of climate change, according to a new climate report

The ideas of William Nordhaus and Paul Romer have shaped today's policies on greenhouse gas emissions

The death penalty, uranium mining and the endangered dusky gopher frog are among the topics that justices will consider this year

Draft guidelines permit gene-editing tools for research into early human development, but would discourage manipulation of embryos for reproduction

The University of Pisa and the European Research Council also said that they are opening investigations into Alessandro Strumia’s conduct

The prize-awarding academies are making changes to their secretive nomination processes to tackle bias, but some say the measures don’t go far enough

Twin probes from Hayabusa2 mission have sent back their first pictures from Ryugu’s surface

Document shows he lied about his alterations

In a multi-“cat” experiment the textbook interpretation of quantum theory seems to lead to contradictory pictures of reality, physicists claim

Sweeping policy changes aim to refocus research efforts on poverty, unemployment, drought and other national problems

Zombie satellites, rocket shards and collision debris are creating major traffic risks in orbits around the planet. Researchers are working to reduce the threats posed by more than 20,000 objects in space

Physicists achieve powerful acceleration by "surfing" electrons on proton waves over short distances

Its health system lacks the capacity to respond to attacks that use high-powered modern weapons