- November 29, 2013. Trying to determine the nature of dark energy and dark matter from intensive South Pole Telescope data collections. See: Smithsonian online.
- November 26, 2013. The 2nd Bangkok International Conference on Biological Engineering & Natural Science scheduled for January 18, 2014 to January 20, 2014. See: Nature events directory.
- November 26, 2013. Chang'e 3 is a lunar exploration mission operated by China National Space Administration, incorporating a robotic lander and a rover. During this second phase of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, Chang'e 3 is scheduled for launch 1 December 2013. See: Nature News
- October 9, 2013. With an online academic journal to be made available Spring 2014, Nature Publishing Group will fill a noted weak area of research - data sets that are often not published or only partially published will be published in this new journal. See: Nature Editorial.
- October 8, 2013. Peter Higgs and François Englert, win the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. Nobelprize.org