Nature News
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Controversial insecticides linked to wild bee declines
Evidence against neonicotinoid chemicals mounts ahead of EU review.
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The bandwidth bottleneck that is throttling the Internet
Researchers are scrambling to repair and expand data pipes worldwide — and to keep the information revolution from grinding to a halt.
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Women in physics face big hurdles — still
Persistent biases continue to affect the numbers of female physicists
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The fiery birth of Earth’s largest ocean exposed
A volatile arrangement of tectonic plates millions of years ago gave us the Pacific.
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Planet hunters seek new ways to detect alien life
Astrobiologists debate which chemical signatures would hint at life on other worlds.
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Chinese scientists to pioneer first human CRISPR trial
Gene-editing technique to treat lung cancer is due to be tested in people in August.
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The bicycle problem that nearly broke mathematics
Jim Papadopoulos has spent a lifetime pondering the maths of bikes in motion. Now his work has found fresh momentum.
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How China is rewriting the book on human origins
Fossil finds in China are challenging ideas about the evolution of modern humans and our closest relatives.
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Strange planet has triple sunsets and a super-long year
World in three-star system also experiences unusual seasons.