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Model that predicts the spread of winning margins could be used to detect electoral interference.

Blood vessels in the brain rhythmically constrict and dilate to drive waves of cleansing fluid through the organ.

These three scientists are pushing boundaries in their fields.

Adam Levy discusses some of the systemic changes needed to make the academic workplace both a happier and healthier place.

Model microbes such as Escherichia coli hog scientists’ attention, leaving most known bacteria with few publications devoted to them.

Meta’s planned shift away from third party fact-checking in favour of a crowdsourced approach has perplexed those who study the spread of misinformation.

The Nobel prizewinner worked tirelessly with wife Rosalynn Carter to eradicate Guinea-worm disease.

The threshold has been exceeded for only one year so far, but humanity is nearing the end of what many thought was a ‘safe zone’ as climate change worsens.

Sensory organs on the walking legs of the male wasp spider can catch the scent of a female in a mood for romance.

Pharmaceuticals and vector-control programmes have greatly diminished the once-widespread disease, but sustained effort will be needed to stamp out infection for good.

Even in scientific areas in which women are well represented, they are up to 40% more likely than men to leave research within 20 years.

Previously undescribed cells look like fat cells, but function to provide cushioning and support in cartilage.

We learn how the brain ‘washes’ itself while asleep and meet two fossils that are changing our understanding of mollusc evolution.