Special 

2015: The year in science

Scientists tackled many daunting challenges this year, from fighting climate change to brokering the Iran weapons deal. Here, Nature highlights the people, events and discoveries in science that made a difference in 2015.

The top 20: a year of reading immersively 

Our pick of the best science books of 2015 — on mega-dams, plant behaviour, the ‘strange alternate universe’ of maths and more.

Nature (16 December 2015)