Stories by Nature magazine

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna could discover gigantic ripples in spacetime from merging supermassive black holes and more

Ancient DNA recovered from Brazilian remains shows that syphilis and other treponemal diseases originated some 10,000 years earlier than previously thought

The world’s deepest and largest underground laboratory is scaling up its search for dark matter

Researchers have doubted how useful AI protein-structure tool AlphaFold will be in discovering medicines—now they are learning how to deploy it effectively

Proteins involved in immunity, clotting and inflammation could help to unravel the complexity of long COVID

A method that provides cloned embryos with a healthy placenta has led to the first cloned rhesus monkey that has survived to adulthood and could pave the way for more research involving the primates

Permian period petroleum helped to preserve minute scraps of pebbly hide that probably belonged to a lizardlike creature

A huge cache of ancient genomes spanning tens of thousands of years reveals the roots of traits in modern Europeans

Large language model does better than human mathematicians trying to solve combinatorics problems inspired by the card game Set

Ten years after cannabis was first legalized for recreational use in adults, scientists are struggling to provide evidence-based recommendations about the risks to young people

The first global declaration on reducing emissions from food production is a start, researchers say—but it sidesteps contentious issues such as meat consumption

The company announces its latest huge chip—but will now focus on developing smaller chips with a fresh approach to “error correction”

Massive buried structures at Gunung Padang in Indonesia have been described as much older than Egypt’s great pyramids in a new study, but some doubt they’re even human constructions

A surge in respiratory disease in China appears to be caused by known pathogens, but the pattern of infections is still unusual

Heat pumps are ubiquitous in the form of air conditioners. Scientists just invented one that avoids harmful refrigerant gases

Like the Northern Hemisphere before it, the Southern Hemisphere is set to be enveloped by sweltering heat during its upcoming summer

Scientists still can’t explain what is causing unusually bright explosions in space—but a surprising observation might offer clues

The Amazon rain forest is in the middle of a record-breaking drought because of deforestation, El Niño and climate change

The search for room-temperature superconductors has suffered scandalous setbacks, but physicists are optimistic about the field’s future

A newly approved CRISPR therapy could transform the treatment of sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia—but the technology is expensive

To deal with invasive hippos that were brought to Colombia by drug lord Pablo Escobar—and that threaten the country’s biodiversity—the nation’s government is sterilizing, exporting and euthanizing the animals 

Electrical stimulation to the lower spine has improved the mobility of a man with Parkinson’s disease for the past two years, but researchers say larger clinical trials are needed to assess the device  

One of the world’s most prestigious science journals has retracted a major paper from embattled superconductivity researcher Ranga Dias

A new tool based on machine learning uses features of writing style to distinguish between human and AI authors