History articles from across Nature Portfolio

A survey of people at risk of exposure to natural disasters, and great balls of fire, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archive.

In 1995, two papers reported long-sought proof of an exotic state of matter — with applications in fields as diverse as quantum computing and cosmology.

A lecture to commemorate Nature’s first editor, and threats against a precious genetic resource that exists in indigenous livestock, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archive.

Can a minimal model reveal quasicrystal emergence and associated multi-level hierarchies of crystal patterns? Here, the theoretical discovery of the underlying energy ground states of Hertzian quasicrystal offers a new perspective on its formation.

A survey of people at risk of exposure to natural disasters, and great balls of fire, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archive.

In 1995, two papers reported long-sought proof of an exotic state of matter — with applications in fields as diverse as quantum computing and cosmology.

Blending ‘old-fashioned’ logic systems with the neural networks that power large language models is one of the hottest trends in artificial intelligence.

A lecture to commemorate Nature’s first editor, and threats against a precious genetic resource that exists in indigenous livestock, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archive.

Nobel laureate who mapped temperature variations in the cosmic microwave background.

He helped to reveal the structure of life’s code, transformed science education and research, and remained a deeply controversial figure to the end.