History articles from across Nature Portfolio

A proposal to highlight the work of chemists, and reflections on 150 years of London Zoo in this week’s pick from the Nature archive.

A beautiful and ingenious machine hit the headlines 150 years ago, and a book explores bird migration in this week’s pick from the Nature archive.

An unexpected creature munches on cherry blossom flowers, and the value of drawing art is considered in this week’s pick from the Nature archive.

Starting with early settlements, water has long shaped the form, fate and location of cities. This study finds that preurban development in the Yangtze River Basin was tied to rivers even as it remained vulnerable to their fluctuations.

As a director of the Wellcome Trust and charity founder, the labs she built sequenced the human genome and more.

As the leader of the Missouri Botanical Garden, he called global attention to the biodiversity crisis.

A proposal to highlight the work of chemists, and reflections on 150 years of London Zoo in this week’s pick from the Nature archive.

A beautiful and ingenious machine hit the headlines 150 years ago, and a book explores bird migration in this week’s pick from the Nature archive.

Genetic analysis suggests interbreeding between two groups of human relatives.

An unexpected creature munches on cherry blossom flowers, and the value of drawing art is considered in this week’s pick from the Nature archive.