Stories by Nature

Cybercrime researcher Gianluca Stringhini explains how he studies hate speech and fake news on the underground network 4chan

With algorithms in hand, scientists try to make U.S. elections more representative

What the U.S.'s departure from the historic pact means for efforts to fight global warming

Ecologists are increasingly looking at how richness of traits — rather than number of species — helps set the health of ecosystems

Plumes of ammonia and quirky magnetic fields are among the surprises from the spacecraft’s first science results

Alarms raised over suspected efforts to collect massive numbers of genetic samples from citizens

Cuts include 18 percent at the National Institutes of Health and 30 percent at the Environmental Protection Agency

Breaking from the general poleward movement of many species, flowering trees take an unexpected turn

Desperate farmers hope scientists can beat pathogen that is wrecking the US orange harvest

Legislation urges educators to "teach the controversy" and allows citizens to challenge curricula

Skeleton from South America enables paleontologists to piece together the puzzle of baleen whale evolution

Tom Insel will launch his own company to analyze behavior and mental illness using smartphone data

By converting a defunct communications dish, astronomers are breaking ground on Earth and beyond

An experimental procedure is exposing links between nervous and immune systems  

Ancient rock art research could piece together how the peoples who lived in the region some 5,700 years ago interacted
 

A billion-euro, 10-year “Quantum Technology Flagship” project will pursue advances in sensors, communications and computing

Protests sparked by the destruction of three key fossil-hunting areas result in a temporary halt of phosphate mining

A series of odd findings have theorists hoping for new particles

Without more information, policy makers may be flying blind into the next industrial revolution

A new experiment to measure the behavior of muons in magnetic fields could reveal unknown particles

Real-time analysis of wireless communications data could improve weather forecasts around the world

The gut microbes of young killifish can extend lifespans

The parasitic fish could be the first case of growth-dependent sex determination

World-first transplant to treat macular degeneration could augur rise of iPS cell banks