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Bioprocess engineer Jesús E. Rodríguez’s team dreams of replacing all synthetic plastics with biodegradable products.

After a spate of high-profile tenure denials, US academics are rethinking how this beleagured academic process can be made more fair.

Developers want to free scientists to focus on discovery and innovation by helping them to draw connections from a massive body of literature.

Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

Two pathogens that cause potentially serious respiratory infections in children are suppressed by a single protein.

Social media is abuzz with chatter about the material, but some scientists are pushing back on the hype.

Online meetings can help you to widen your global scientific network and raise your profile, says Svetlana Ugarcina Perovic.

Researchers and legal specialists explain what the historic Henrietta Lacks settlement could mean for the scientific community. Plus, JWST finds a treasure trove of black holes and why sexism in science isn't resolved yet.

Holistic approaches to water and land management practised by Indigenous communities worldwide hold the key to a more sustainable future, say co-organizers of the Global Indigenous Youth Summit on Climate Change.

Molecular biologist whose work on isolated genes helped launch the era of recombinant DNA and gene editing.

The object’s deep red colour suggests it existed when the Universe was less than 700 million years old.

Rules on the fuel burnt by ships at sea implemented in 2020 lead to local changes in cloud chemistry.

A landmark genomic study raises the possibility that many more people could find links to distant ancestors through genetic analysis.

Professional pride and personal tragedy stymied ideas about how infections spread in the nineteenth century, suggests a show about maverick Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis.

Thermo Fisher Scientific and Lacks’s family reach a deal over the unethical use of her cells.

Perucetus colossus, an ancient whale that lived 38 million years ago, is a new contender for the heaviest animal ever. Plus, four key questions on the new wave of anti-obesity drugs.

The James Webb Space Telescope’s observations could help to answer questions about how the celestial objects formed early in the Universe.

The floods that have swept China in the past week were exacerbated by poor planning for drainage.

The experimental physicist joins us to talk about her book Not just for the boys, why we need more women in science.