From up in the air to deep beneath the ground, here is the new technology helping to enhance the way we live.

The literature has failed to acknowledge many female researchers, especially those from marginalized backgrounds. But a new generation of historians is changing the narrative.

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 ...

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

In ‘body-first’ Parkinson’s disease, misfolded proteins propagate from the gut’s nervous system to the brain. Immune-cell activity seems to play a key part in this spread.

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 ...

From tree branches to blood vessels, physical networks are often thought of as one-dimensional wires connecting points. In this view, the need to keep the overall ‘wire length’ to a minimum is thought ...

The cover captures a hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus) in South Africa. Although maintaining biodiversity is core to sustainable development, policymakers frequently lack context-specific information ...

Artificial-intelligence systems are feeding on Wikipedia without giving back, and academic indifference is threatening the survival of what is arguably the most widely used reference work on the ...

It is one year since Donald Trump began his second term as president of the United States and, with grant cuts and staff reductions, these 12 months have seen some seismic changes in US science. In ...

The cover features a close-up of the eastern green mamba (Dendroaspis angusticeps), one of many highly venomous snake species found in sub-Saharan Africa. Bites from venomous snakes are a major health ...

Car wheels and billiard balls follow a linear path when they roll down a flat slope. More exotically shaped solids, such as oloids, trace a sinusoid-like route. In this week’s issue, Bartosz ...