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The chemical feat strengthens theory that the first life on Earth was based on RNA.

Nature’s pick of the best science images is this month dedicated to climate change — and the researchers who study it.

United Nations report predicts more powerful storms, increased risk of flooding and dwindling fisheries if greenhouse-gas output doesn’t fall.

Researchers are using the gene-editing tool to boost the fruit’s defences and prevent the extinction of a major commercial variety.

A set of troubling charts shows how little progress nations have made toward limiting greenhouse-gas emissions.

Researchers and policymakers rely on computer simulations called integrated assessment models to determine the best strategies for tackling climate change. Here, scientists present opposing views on the suitability of these simulations.

In a small trial, drugs seemed to rejuvenate the body’s ‘epigenetic clock’, which tracks a person’s biological age.

Isotopes that caused a radiation spike earlier this month probably came from an exploding nuclear-reactor core — but device’s application is still unknown.

16,000-year-old artefacts discovered in Idaho could be the oldest ever found on the continent.