- February 21, 2025
Asteroid 2024 YR4 now unlikely to hit Earth — but scientists are ready for future threats
An artist’s impression of an asteroid.Credit: ESA-Science Office New calculations indicate that the asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is now
Migraine is more than a headache — a radical rethink offers hope to one billion people
Andrea West remembers the first time she heard about a new class of migraine medication that could end her decades
scientific storytelling from a recovering academic
Cave-bat fieldwork often looked like a scene from the 1995 film Outbreak.Credit: Warner Bros/AJ Pics/Alamy For years, I was a
Dear Leader
We are the same, Dear Leader. I realize that now. We’re both doomed, you and I. It is dark, this
Bonobos know when you’re in the know ― and when you’re not
Bonobos, which are among our closest relatives, can adjust their communication to account for what other individuals know1. Access options
These Gaza scientists are keeping research alive amid war, destruction and uncertainty
The 42-day ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, which took effect on 19 January, provides a vital opportunity to begin to
how bacteria could help sustain long-distance space travel
The microorganisms lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 25 July 2019, headed for the International Space Station, some 400
US drug agency approves potent painkiller — the first non-opioid in decades
Researchers have long sought potent, but non-addictive, painkillers as alternatives to opioids.Credit: Getty When Terp Vairin awoke from a 2023
Our remote fieldwork taught us how to band together as scientists
Victoria, Olivia and Justine (left to right) during one of their field sessions on Sable Island.Credit: Justine Ammendolia In 2023
70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
Social-media platform Bluesky has more than 27 million users.Credit: Peter Kováč/Alamy Seventy per cent of Nature readers who responded to