In a French criminal trial, conventional DNA analysis couldn’t distinguish between twin brothers, but emerging scientific methods could help in such cases.

Study of 600,000 US military veterans shows that those who took anti-obesity medications were less likely to develop some complications of substance-use disorders.

Injectable fluid safely fills area in which blood clots can form, in animal trials — plus, strong evidence that an elusive ...

After decades of debate, researchers say that they have found the clearest evidence yet for this rare form of carbon.

The Evo2 genomic language model can generate short genome sequences, but scientists say further advances are needed to write ...

Finding out how microbes make compounds containing the diazo chemical group could help researchers to synthesize useful ...

At the start of the year, Nature Index reported on a survey that asked thousands of authors of world-leading research for their thoughts on the current funding landscape. Some 53% of respondents said ...

The Indus Waters Treaty withstood several armed conflicts and a huge loss of glaciers. It should serve as a blueprint for ...

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Their makers claim they can detect dozens of cancer types — but some scientists say they could be missing many cancers or ...

Houchin and his colleagues studied dozens of zircon crystals from the Jack Hills in Western Australia. These are the oldest ...

A fourth Sun-like star loops around this tightly packed inner nexus roughly once every 1,000 days. The whole collection would ...