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By Philip Ball of Nature magazine Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film Pulp Fiction is packed with memorable dialogue--"Le Big Mac," say, or Samuel L. [More]

By Philip Ball of Nature magazine Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film Pulp Fiction is packed with memorable dialogue--"Le Big Mac," say, or Samuel L.

Such work could solve the nature versus nurture debate, but is morally, ethically impossible

By Eric Hand of Nature magazine The potential cost of NASA's flagship mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa was recently put at $4.7 billion. [More]

By Eric Hand of Nature magazine The potential cost of NASA's flagship mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa was recently put at $4.7 billion. [More]

Birds and sea turtles can migrate thousands of miles, by reading the Earth’s magnetic cues. But we too might have magnetic sensing abilities--in our eyes. So says a study in the journal Nature Communications

By Eric Hand of Nature magazine Gale Crater, a 150-kilometer-wide depression named after an Australian banker-turned-amateur astronomer, has emerged as the preferred destination for the next spacecraft to set wheels on Mars. [More]

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By Heidi Ledford of Nature magazine When pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced on June 8 that it is teaming up with eight research institutions in the Boston area to hunt for candidate drugs, the news was cheered from all sides. [More]

By Jeff Tollefson of Nature magazine Hydropower is booming in the devel

By Douglas Kysar of Nature magazine The US Supreme Court this week gave its opinion on American Electric Power v. [More]

By John Whitfield of Nature magazine A study of open-access publishing--published last week in the open-access journal PLoS ONE --has found that the number of papers in freely accessible journals is growing at a steady 20% per year ( M. [More]

By Erika Check Hayden of Nature magazine As president of global health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, based in Seattle, Washington, 66-year-old Tachi Yamada has been responsible for allocating billions of dollars to health projects around the world.

By Nicola Nosengo of Nature magazine If you are a small animal, it is useful to know whether there is anything around that might want to eat you. [More]

By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Bats use tiny hairs to sense the speed and direction of air flowing over their wings.