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Paleoanthropologists announce, through the "Nature" journal, that a human skull (Apidima 1) discovered inside a cave in Greece, is dated to 210,000 years ago, making it the oldest known "Homo sapiens" individual found outside of Africa.
2019-07-10

A research team led by an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona publishes a paper in "Nature" on the genetic history of HIV proving that Gaëtan Dugas, the Canadian flight attendant who had been identified for years as "Patient Zero" of the AIDS epidemic in the U.S., did not spread the virus to the country. The study indicates that HIV first spread to the U.S. from the Caribbean around 1970.
2016-10-26

Researchers report in the journal Nature the discovery of three potentially habitable, Earth-like exoplanets orbiting TRAPPIST-1, an ultracool dwarf star 40 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius.
2016-05-2

An article published in "Nature" reports high levels of molecular oxygen found by the Rosetta space probe on comet 67P-Churyumov-Gerasimenko. This discovery could have implications for theories of the origin of the solar system.
2015-10-28

Scientists withdraw the January 29, 2014 claim that there is a simple way to convert normal cells into stem cells, which can be used for any part of the body. Nature had in July retracted its two previous articles after the disgraced lead researcher, Japanese Haruko Obokata, was found to have plagiarized and fabricated parts of the papers.
2014-12-19

"Nature" publishes research by the University of Toronto announcing the discovery of a new class of stem cells called F-class stem cells that have the potential to be better and safer to use in medical research.
2014-12-10

In Illinois, United States, 2-year-old Korean-Canadian Hannah Warren, who was born without a trachea, becomes the youngest patient to receive a bioengineered organ made from stem cells.
2013-04-30

Japanese stem cell scientist Dr. Shinya Yamanaka is awarded the Millennium Technology Prize for discovering how to reprogram human cells to mimic embryonic stem cells, which can become any cell in the body.
2012-06-13

A new in-depth genetic study on Jewish history is published in "Nature": researchers analysed genetic samples from 14 international Jewish communities and 69 international non-Jewish communities.
2010-06-9

Five southern Africans, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, have their genomes analysed by scientists and published in "Nature", with Tutu excited to discover he is "related to the San people, the first people to inhabit Southern Africa".
2010-02-17