Stories by Nature magazine

NASA’s Mars InSight mission will listen for seismic activity to uncover details of Red Planet’s mysterious core

Researchers hope European-Russian Trace Gas Orbiter will end a long-running debate over source of the gas on Mars

Images from Landsat satellites and an agricultural-survey program are freely available to scientists—but for how long?

Scientists want to combat dementia and neurodegeneration by keeping the brain’s immune system from going rogue

After a clutch of historic detections, gravitational-wave researchers have set their sights on some ambitious scientific quarry

A machine that maintains organs at body temperature may help alleviate shortages

The Environmental Defense Fund is working with researchers at Harvard University on the probe

Researchers in the U.S., India and Mexico are protesting in advance of major elections

Pristine lab conditions may not provide the best model for human disease

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is designed to spot planets orbiting nearby bright stars

China’s move is expected to complement other countries’ related initiatives

Researchers often focus on pathogens that infect mammals and birds

Physicists at experiment in Italy continue to see a data fluctuation that they say represents dark matter—but the mystery deepens

Congress is preparing to vote on legislation that includes historic $37 billion for the NIH

Robert Langlands’ ideas unearthed connections within mathematics that have helped to solve centuries-old problems and aided researchers in disparate fields

Researchers are painting intricate pictures of individual memories and learning how the brain works in the process

AI-controlled devices record neural activity and automatically stimulate the brain

Lunar researchers want to take advantage of Trump administration’s political interest

Physicists make misaligned sheets of the carbon material conduct electricity without resistance

Researchers begin to tackle the technical obstacles to incorporate observations from space into weather models

A survey of more than 1,500 studies concludes neonicotinoids harm bees

Researchers intend to transport the elusive material between labs and use it to study the strange behavior of rare radioactive nuclei 

Networks that harness entanglement and teleportation could enable leaps in security, computing and science

Funding for the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health would hold steady after Congress agrees to lift spending caps, but details are fuzzy