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The ‘off-the-charts saturated’ greenish hue — called olo — has been seen by only five study participants.

Freshwater insects used ‘microplastic’ as a building material long before scientists coined the term.

Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

Henry Sila Nzioki has developed a weed-killing fungus to improve food security.

Carbonate mineral is long-sought evidence of conditions that supported liquid water.

The National Science Foundation is the latest US agency to be disrupted by Elon Musk’s DOGE.

Conventional tests that look only at a small subset of genetic code often miss variations hiding outside the protein-coding genome.

Researchers who spoke to Nature say they don’t have the money or staff to do fieldwork or process samples.

Study finds dozens of journals that have hiked their fees and started churning out papers after being acquired by small, recently formed companies.

Bold claims of ‘biosignature’ molecules trigger an outpouring of scepticism.

Models estimate the ginormous potential impact of foreign-aid cuts.

Understanding the playbook that those in power use to twist numbers, and how they make others complicit, is only becoming more important in the post-truth world.

Advances in diagnosis and treatment mean that rapid cognitive decline won’t necessarily follow hot on the heels of a diagnosis.

Potato ‘pangenome’ could allow easier sequencing of new varieties — plus, a Nature analysis reveals the most cited paper written in the twenty-first century.

Complex shapes made of a specially formulated resin are easily recycled into other, equally durable objects.

A genomic analysis of 84 species in the genus Rosa traces the evolutionary history of the beloved flower.