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Privacy protections: The genome hacker

Yaniv Erlich DANA SMITH Late at night, a video camera captures a man striding up to the locked door of the information-technology department of a major Israeli bank. At this hour, access can be…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2503 words)

Ana Montes did much harm spying for Cuba. Chances are, you haven’t heard of her.

PUBLISHED: April 18, 2013
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6047 words)

A Greek exit: How would it work?

Updated May 16, 2012 11:55:48 Imagine for a moment you live in Greece.You wake up one morning to the news your country is no longer part of the eurozone. You were meant to buy groceries and pay bills…
PUBLISHED: May 16, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1283 words)

Nature News & Comment

EVOLVING ETHICS Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) were a prime concern for health officials in the 1940s, and many medical studies — including the US experiments in Guatemala — used…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3948 words)

Is democracy finally coming to Burma?

At around 10am one morning earlier this week, a dazed and haggard man in surprisingly clean blue convict's fatigues walked out of Insein jail on the outksirts of the Burmese city of Rangoon. Tang…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 5, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1918 words)

Features of the year

Nature | News The best of our longer reads as selected by our editors. 19 December 2011 The 24/7 lab and a medical researcher-turned-saboteur are amongst the editors’ pick of our longer reads…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (356 words)

Darwin's city

Published online 8 June 2011 | Nature 474, 146-149 (2011) | doi:10.1038/474146a David Sloan Wilson is using the lens of evolution to…
PUBLISHED: June 8, 2011
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2982 words)

The history of a national embarrassment, and why it's not over yet.

Birther Phil WolfPresident Obama did not end the "birther" movement today. Hours after the president released his long-form birth
PUBLISHED: April 27, 2011
LENGTH: 2 minutes (737 words)
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