The use of synthetic pesticides is widespread, and their potentially harmful effects on wildlife — from bees to fish— and human health are well documented. Somewhat less clear are their effects on ...

Do your New Year resolutions include a plan to leave higher education? These researchers explain how to reinvent your career.

The cover shows members of a local community in the Western Province of the Solomon Islands taking part in a traditional fish drive, in which multiple members of a community work together to make the ...

Although the soma ages during life, the germ line of multicellular organisms does not. Here it is shown that Caenorhabditis elegans mutants with increased longevity turn on gene expression programs in ...

Documents that lay out a research group’s ethos and practical guidelines are becoming increasingly popular in the academic community.

In 2016, the first direct observation of gravitational waves was reported. The measurements by the LIGO detectors gave astronomers a new way to observe the Universe.

Our Galaxy’s heart might actually be a huge blob of dark matter, astrophysicists suggest. Plus, how to play a stone Roman board game and a call for the aid industry to shift to a ‘peace first’ ...

The extreme conditions found in the deep sea mean that this part of the planet remains largely unexplored. In this week’s issue, Tiefeng Li and his colleagues present a soft robot that can operate at ...

Pure mathematics involves the discovery of patterns between mathematical objects and using these connections to formulate conjectures. Mathematicians have deployed computers since the 1960s to help ...

The cover image draws on aspects of Bauhaus artist Paul Klee’s famous notebooks to reimagine the quest for a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2. The drive to create an effective vaccine to mitigate the ...

Root-associated microbial symbionts have a strong influence over the way forest ecosystems function. The identity of the symbionts can help determine how easily trees access nutrients, sequester ...

Carbon dioxide reductions are key, but the IPCC’s latest report highlights the benefits of making cuts to other greenhouse gases, too.