2019: The year in science

Climate strikes, marsquakes and gaming AIs are among the year’s top stories.

The 2010s have seen breakthroughs in frontiers from gene editing to gravitational waves. The coming one must focus on climate change.

Picks include a quantum pioneer, a co-discoverer of Ebola and a bioethicist-turned-activist.

Scientists reflect on a year of civil unrest. Writing from Syria, Bolivia, Sudan, Iran, Chile, Ecuador, Lebanon, Venezuela, Hong Kong and Catalonia, correspondents tell of altered priorities, day-to-day challenges and hope in the dark times.

A black hole’s perilous edge, anti-poaching warriors, whisky webs and more.

Highlights from News & Views published this year.

Leading thinkers choose past works illuminating crucial issues today.

A pick of the most compelling Nature feature stories this year.

Reviews of the essential science reads this year.

Exclusive analysis explores Nature’s multidisciplinary history.

How astronomers are using ancient radio waves to study the ancient Universe

We asked researchers what the breakthrough means for them and for science.

The remains, found on an island in the Philippines, suggest that Homo luzonensis was under 1.2 metres tall.