Stories by Nature magazine

The European physics laboratory CERN is planning to build a mega collider by 2070. Critics say the plan could lead to ruin

Scientists in China have transmitted encrypted images a record 12,900 kilometers, paving the way for quantum messaging anywhere on Earth

“Qudits,” the multi-dimensional cousins of qubits, could make quantum computers more efficient and less prone to error

MRI scans show that the brains of infants and toddlers can encode memories, even if we don’t remember them as adults

Experiments suggest an unusual magnetic material could help harness energy from Earth’s rotation. But not everyone is convinced

From China to Brazil to Germany, huge numbers of people are addicted to shopping, driven in part by companies that use gaming strategies

After 150,000 articles and 17 million genome sequences, what science has taught us about SARS-CoV-2

Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity—or not

Titanium hearts could serve as a stopgap for people with heart failure who are waiting for a donor organ

The company says it has solved the first problem of scientific relevance with a quantum processor faster than could be done with classical computers—but others disagree

Top advisers in NASA’s Office of the Chief Scientist are among the first to go amid a government-wide downsizing effort

Scientists and supporters rallied in cities across the U.S. and Europe to protest dramatic funding cuts and other attacks from the Trump administration

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation likely won't completely collapse with global warming, but any weakening could have grave consequences worldwide

The Trump administration has acted fast to attack science with a range of funding and policy tactics

With its ‘topological’ quantum computers, Microsoft aims to reach useful scales faster than competing technologies

Space scientists within NASA and outside it feel betrayed by the Trump administration’s changes at the agency, which was known for promoting inclusion in science

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has expressed support for some fields of science but has also declared he’d like a “break” in infectious-disease research. Here’s what he might do as the U.S.’s newly confirmed secretary of health and human services

Earth’s core is transforming, which could affect the length of our 24-hour day, Earth’s magnetic field, and more

Google’s AlphaGeometry2 AI reaches the level of gold-medal students in the International Mathematical Olympiad

The U.S. National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil

President Trump has placed an indefinite suspension on research grant reviews and travel at the National Institutes of Health and appears to have erased diversity programming pages at the agency’s website

After his second inauguration, President Donald Trump signed a host of executive orders, some with important implications for science

Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes an approach that looks at how excess body fat affects health