Stories by Nature magazine

It's not just about rebellion. Neuroscience is revealing adolescents' rich and nuanced relationship with risky behavior

How does the brain know where it is? Nachum Ulanovsky hopes his flying friends can help him find the answer

Critics outraged over changes to chemical-safety review guidelines

The world’s most powerful particle collider has yet to turn up new physics—now some physicists are turning to a different strategy

The U.S. FDA decision comes after fits and stops for RNA-interference therapies

Haul thrills physicists, who previously knew of just a few hundred of these peculiar materials

Health workers must plan vaccination effort amidst fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Research casts doubt on the idea that a gene linked to language evolution is special to modern humans

The Fields Medals have been awarded to four researchers who work on number theory, geometry and network analysis

Nomination of Kelvin Droegemeier could end long drought at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Weather forecasters will soon provide instant assessments of global warming’s influence on extreme events

Policymakers have tried, unsuccessfully, to change this law for decades

The strategy could also be used to aide Tasmanian devils and corals on the Great Barrier Reef

An observation decades in the making confirms predictions about how light behaves in an immense gravitational field

With the end of Europe’s major Planck mission, researchers are moving to smaller projects studying different aspects of the cosmic microwave background

Privacy concerns, cultural differences fuel skepticism about this approach in other settings

Uncertainty, hostility and irrelevance are now part of daily life for scientists at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

MeerKAT has drawn astronomers, engineers and data scientists from around the world

The Cerrado is the most threatened biome in Brazil, environmentalists proclaim

2.1-million-year-old stone tools suggest hominins reached East Asia much earlier than thought

Experiments in mice suggest the technology has a long way to go before being used for pest control in the wild

European nations see biggest increases in use of stimulants such as Ritalin by people seeking brain-boosting effects

The findings counter some previous work

In 5-4 ruling, Supreme Court allows government to bar visitors and immigrants from seven nations