History

• Newsmaker of the year: The machine maker

  He did more than anyone to build the Large Hadron Collider. This year he saw it finished -- and then break down. Geoff Brumfiel profiles the LHC's project leader, Nature's newsmaker of the year.

  17 December 2008

• News 2008: Prizewinners of the year - Premium content

  Medals, cash and fame rained down on the heads of prominent scientists in 2008. Ashley Yeager rounds up some of them.

  17 December 2008

• Vaccine failure explained - Premium content

  Immunologists show how deaths in 1966 could have been avoided.

  12 December 2008

• MUSE: Is the hunt for extraterrestrial life misguided? - Premium content

  Attempts to probe the Universe for advanced civilizations may be unscientific, says Philip Ball, but that shouldn't stop us.

  8 December 2008

• Darwin 200: Beyond the origin - Premium content

  Celebrating the man and the book.

  19 November 2008

• Darwin 200: An eye for the eye - Premium content

  A celebration of one of evolution's crowning glories.

  19 November 2008

• Microbes drove Earth's mineral evolution - Premium content

  A comprehensive history of Earth's mineral wealth concludes that without life, many raw materials wouldn't exist.

  14 November 2008

• Illegal drug shows promise in treating trauma symptoms - Premium content

  MDMA may boost the benefits of psychotherapy, trial suggests.

  13 November 2008

• Language: Disputed definitions - Premium content

  If you want to start an argument, ask the person who just said 'paradigm shift' what it really means. Or 'epigenetic'. Nature goes in search of the terms that get scientists most worked up.

  22 October 2008

• In search of Thingummyjigosaurus - Premium content

  There are errors in almost half the names given to dinosaurs.

  17 September 2008