A 400,000-year-old site excavated in England reveals signs of deliberate fires made using the mineral iron pyrite to produce sparks. The question of where eddies come from is immortalized in verse, ...

The question of where eddies come from is immortalized in verse, and an earwig emerges remarkably unscathed from inside a vacuum tube, in this week’s peek at Nature’s archive.

The small-bandgap semiconductors LnCd 3 P 3 (Ln = La, Ce, Pr and Nd) are promising materials to study emergent phenomena from geometric frustration across bond, spin and charge degrees of freedom.

A discovery in mice reveals why fasting enhances a type of breast cancer treatment — a hormone-signalling pathway and gene-expression changes have key roles. Updated estimates of the worldwide sources ...