Nature News
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Physics: Quantum computer quest
After a 30-year struggle to harness quantum weirdness for computing, physicists finally have their goal in reach.
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Homo erectus made world’s oldest doodle 500,000 years ago
Shell markings are the oldest abstract signs ever discovered.
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Photons double up to make the invisible visible
People have infrared vision — and it could be the result of pairs of photons combining their energies to appear as one ‘visible’ photon.
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Immune system offers clues to cancer treatment
Molecular signatures hint at who will benefit from next-generation cancer drugs.
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Nuclear power: Desperately seeking plutonium
NASA has 35 kilograms of plutonium-238 to power its deep-space missions — but that will not get it very far.
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Barley fuelled farmers’ spread onto Tibetan plateau
Cold-tolerant crop enabled high-altitude agriculture some 3,600 years ago.
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Crisis mappers turn to citizen scientists
Crowdsourced disaster surveys strive for more reliability in online collaboration.
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‘Platinum’ genome takes on disease
Disease sites targeted in assembly of more-complete version of the human genome sequence.
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The Great Depression
Depression causes a greater burden of disability than any other condition, yet it is widely undiagnosed and untreated. In this special collection of articles, Nature asks why that burden is […]