The cover shows an artist’s impression of the rich ecosystem that existed in parts of northern Greenland some 2 million years ago. The ecosystem is reconstructed from ancient DNA in this week’s issue ...

One challenge that stems from the fundamental incompatibility between general relativity and quantum mechanics is that there is no consensus on a theory of quantum gravity. A way to potentially ...

The cover shows the moth Idalus iragorri, one of many insect species found at low to medium elevations in the eastern Andes. More than 70% of all insect species are found in the tropics, but the ...

Genomes of red junglefowl, the wild birds that gave rise to domestic chickens, include genetic material from their farmyard cousins.

The cover shows clonal raider ants (Ooceraea biroi) tending to pupae and small larvae. Ants are social insects, and their colonies are complex biological systems with sophisticated communication, ...

Adding nutrients to soil or removing grazing herbivores such as sheep reduces plant diversity in grasslands. In this week’s issue, Anu Eskelinen and her colleagues show that a key factor driving this ...

A lack of data on economic outcomes hinders development and evaluation of public policy in many parts of the world. In this week’s issue, Marshall Burke and his colleagues show how satellite imagery ...

The cover illustration shows vacuolar-type adenosine triphosphatases (V-ATPases, large blue structures) on a synaptic vesicle from a nerve cell in the mammalian brain. V-ATPases pump protons across ...

A simple celebratory post about completing my PhD went viral for all the wrong reasons. Here’s how I managed the backlash and used the attention to promote my research.

Superluminous supernovae are at least ten times brighter than their regular counterparts, but astronomers have remained in the dark about what exactly powers these phenomena. In this week’s issue, ...

Antarctic ice cores hint that changes in the ocean might have played a larger part than have greenhouse gases in key climate shifts of the past three million years.

To mark International Women’s Day, Nature asked winners of its awards programmes to nominate a colleague who brings out the best in them.