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This year sees Nature getting up close and personal with researchers, thanks to a new series and a territorial expansion. Another important innovation is a policy that allows authors to retain copyright.
Forest mammals are food for people across Asia, Africa and South America. But with many species disappearing fast, can hunting be made sustainable? John Whitfield talks to the ecologists trying to balance supply and demand.
Seismic studies of the deep roots of Hawaii's volcanoes may help to reveal mysterious circulation processes in the Earth's mantle — shedding light on our planet's history and dynamics. Rex Dalton peers beneath the surface.
When experimentally displaced in geomagnetic space, spiny lobsters act as if to make their way home. This is a fascinating case of navigation by an invertebrate using a magnetic map sense.
Will quantum information theory ever lead to practical quantum information technologies? At a conference reviewing the advances of the past two years, delegates looked to the future with cautious optimism.
We, and other animals, can generally pinpoint the source of a sound in space regardless of how loud it is. A study involving experimentation and computer modelling reveals how our brains perform this clever task.
It has been known for some years that Jupiter's satellite Io has sodium as a component of its atmosphere. The source, it now seems, is sodium chloride emitted by volcanoes on Io's surface.
Duplicated genes are common in genomes, perhaps because they provide redundancy: if one copy is inactivated, the other can still work. A new study quantifies the effects of deleting 'singletons' and duplicated genes in yeast.
Single-molecule magnets can change their spin states through quantum tunnelling. A more complete picture of the interactions occurring in a system of such magnets must include two-body transitions.
