The US election is monumental for science, say Nature readers — here’s why “In my long life of 82 years ... there has hardly ...

Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii. The first signs of its presence on Earth have been dated at over a billion years, well before ...

Chinese scientists have found abiotic organic compounds in the ocean crust, shedding light on deep-sea carbon cycles and life ...

Poorly performing antibodies have plagued biomedical sciences for decades. Several fresh initiatives hope to change this.

Some of the remaining bears live within the Andean Bear Corridor, a region sitting along the spine of the Andes that stretches from Peru and into Ecuador. It’s here that a team of researchers from the ...

Scientists are designing simplified biological systems, aiming to construct synthetic cells and better understand life’s ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute found that at least one, if not both of the people were men. While the true nature ...

Coordinated by the Chicago-based water innovation hub Current, in partnership with Argonne and the University of Chicago, ...

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Researchers are particularly interested in understanding whether Mars was habitable, and if so, during what period.

After centuries of effort by brilliant theorists, we’re left with a confusing mélange of unsatisfactory ...