Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight, but tracing their exact evolutionary origins has proved to be difficult. In this week’s issue, Martin Ezcurra and his colleagues help to ...

Although it has been established that human-induced warming increases the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, there has not been a comprehensive analysis of historical events. In this ...

The cover shows an artist’s impression of the Triassic ‘crested’ reptile Mirasaura grauvogeli hunting for insects some 247 million years ago. Stephan Spiekman and colleagues examine the fossil remains ...

The wood of living trees is the biggest reservoir of biomass on Earth, but its microbiome has largely been unexplored. In this week’s issue, Wyatt Arnold, Jonathan Gewirtzman and colleagues probe this ...

Horses created with the help of the CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing technique have sparked controversy in the world of polo. Plus, air pollution is linked to a form of dementia and a newfound immune cell in ...

Glacier calving — when ice chunks break away to form icebergs — combined with underwater melting is the main driver for loss of mass from the Greenland Ice Sheet, but the detailed dynamics of this ...

An encounter with blood-suckers persuades a researcher to back a new scientific institute, and an effort to standardize the printing of mathematical formulae, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archive.

Designing adhesives that remain effective in wet environments is a formidable challenge that can even confound approaches that use artificial intelligence. In this week’s issue, Jian Ping Gong and ...

The role of tissue that forms between the head and trunk of a fly embryo has been unclear. It turns out that it absorbs forces when nearby cells move and divide. An analysis of seismic waves ...

Root-associated microbial symbionts have a strong influence over the way forest ecosystems function. The identity of the symbionts can help determine how easily trees access nutrients, sequester ...

In this week’s issue, John Martinis and his colleagues describe a significant step in the development of quantum computing. For the first time, the researchers have demonstrated experimentally that a ...

Sea-level rise and coastal shifts could wipe out nearly half of Earth’s sandy seashores by the end of the century.