News, News Feature, Muse, Seven Days, News Q&A and News Explainer in 2017

Country's next president could reshape proposal for new science ministry.

The week in science: 15–21 December 2017.

Silicon Valley philanthropy project revives some grants rejected by a mainstream US biomedical funder.

Technique to knock out mutant gene relies on fatty molecules to deliver CRISPR components to inner-ear cells.

Eye-catching illustrations from Nature’s award-winning art team.

Our top News Features covered time crystals, refugee scientists, the most popular human genes of all time and more.

The National Institutes of Health will again fund research that makes viruses more dangerous.

2017 in multimedia: the unmissable videos and podcasts of the year.

Blockchain could lend security measures to the scientific process, but the approach has its own risks.

A spectacular total eclipse, hitch-hiking octopus, nanoscale fireworks and more.

A giant iceberg, a quantum-entanglement experiment and the death of a spacecraft are among the year’s top stories.

Ten people who mattered this year.

People who beat infection in 1976 can make antibodies against Ebola today.

It’s good news for neutron researchers in the region.

Over the past three decades, wind speeds in the strongest storms have increased more rapidly in some areas.

The week in science: 8–14 December 2017.

Power source is flexible, transparent and runs on salt water.

Microbiologist Thierry Damerval appointed head of France’s National Research Agency.

Philip Campbell to continue at publisher Springer Nature.

Few options remain to halt the execution of disaster medicine researcher Ahmadreza Djalali.