Nature News
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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 […]
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Twisted light sends Mozart image over record distance
Vienna demonstration shows that the technology can boost data capacity of laser beams over long distances.
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Half of stars lurk outside galaxies
Rocket experiment captures glow attributed to renegade stars in intergalactic space.
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Models overestimate Ebola cases
Rate of infection in Liberia seems to plateau, raising questions over the usefulness of models in an outbreak.
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A quantum world arising from many ordinary ones
Radical theory proposes that interactions between classical worlds can explain some quantum phenomena.