Stories by Nature magazine

Geneticists harness two mutations to improve on 10,000 years of tomato domestication

Bright spots of light over land could help in the search for Earth-like exoplanets 

Two research teams cook up recipe to make long-sought cells in mice and people

Research to aid new jobs in struggling industries is at risk 

Famous bell-shaped pots are associated with a group of immigrants who may have displaced Neolithic farmers

A difference in these trimming cells between the sexes might render males most vulnerable to the disorder

DNA sequences from 100-year-old tumor samples could bolster childhood cancer research

Algorithms help to produce precise maps of where people in developing countries live and work

Sounds of traffic and industry invade over half of protected areas

Congress gives National Institutes of Health a big boost and avoids cuts to research agencies sought by Trump

A promising treatment that uses MDMA could help people suffering with post-traumatic stress disorder 

The polar region is warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet

Genetic map showing how breeds are related provides a wealth of information about origins

November tremor sparked slow, deep movements in Earth’s crust that increase the chances of a similar severe quake within a year

Chemists will navigate molecular wagons along a tiny golden track

The goal is to compare these engineered livers with animal models, with an eye toward replacing animal testing

Each scale on an ocellated lizard coordinates its color with its neighbors

The massive East Antarctic Ice Sheet looks stable from above—but it’s a dangerously different story below

A better understanding of this pedestrian problem could lead to improved surgeons’ knots and fibers

Birds were spiritual emblems in pueblos of the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico 

Officials approved a plan to round up the last 30 vaquitas into protective “sea pens”

Teenage mother who lived 12,000 years ago was malnourished but still roamed widely 

The child's parents have decided to forgo long-term monitoring by researchers

Physicists try to rebuild the laws of heat and energy for processes at a quantum scale