An ordinary Instagram photo, satellite imagery and a midnight boat trip with 10 hours left before a flight gave science a new giant waterlily species: Victoria colombiana. But there may be only 30 to 50 left in the wild.
We learn that all life uses the same genetic language. But a single-celled organism from a pond in an Oxford university park turned two stop codons, long thought to change together, into two different amino acids, and nobody was even looking for it.
