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Many of the historic moments in modern science can now be explored online. The archive of the first eighty years (1869-1949) of the journal Nature, the world's foremost weekly scientific journal, goes live today. Every article published in Nature, back to volume 1, issue 1 will now be available online.

Read more of the article entitled 'NATURE Archive To 1869 Goes Live'

Summaries of other newsworthy papers include Walking after spinal rewiring in Nature Medicine and First sign of trouble in Nature Immunology

Read more of the article entitled 'Anatomy of a pandemic flu threat '

Summaries of newsworthy papers including - Tumour incidence: When three is better than two, Metabolic engineering: Brewing better biofuels, Magnetism: Poles apart in spin ice, Astrophysics: Newborn extrasolar planet still tied to parent star, Arctic climate: Warming up and Cancer: Breast cancer goes NUMB

Read more of the article entitled 'Carbon balance: Autumn warming boosts carbon loss'

Summaries of newsworthy papers include Trp’ing the copper fantastic, Compound screening gets more specific, Helium on the brane, Mechanical memories, The workings of deep brain stimulation, Foamy viruses join the gene therapy toolbox, Gene mutation affecting human brain size, The protective effects of brain damage and Gaining entry into the brain

Read more of the article entitled 'Stem cells: Isolation from individuals'

In what will become an annual event, Nature is singling out a "Newsmaker of the Year". The newsmaker in question is Rajendra Pachauri, the Indian engineer and economist who currently chairs the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Next-generation sequencing has been selected as the Method of the Year 2007 by Nature Methods.

Read more of the article entitled 'Chair of the IPCC and Next-generation sequencing named Newsmaker and Method of the year by Nature and Nature Methods'