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Snippets from Nature’s past.

Ecologists, bureaucrats and conservationists say India’s amended Forest Conservation Act will reduce biodiversity and harm livelihoods.

The research system must lose its overly rigid attitude towards career progression — and mothers are uniting to make that happen.

Without rapid change, the World Health Organization’s goals for tackling cervical cancer by 2030 will be missed. Four experts share ways to move the needle.

A rare example of the reversal of a bacterial predator–prey relationship suggests that such species interactions are more complex than was realized.

Careful retooling of laser beams allows scientists to harness photons for performing quantum calculations.

Marguerite Nicodeme works with Snoopy the dog to bring moments of cheerful relief to people with cancer.

If he wins a second term, the former US president has promised to limit the authority of federal agencies and employees, including scientists.

After nine days in a state of suspension, the upside-down Moon lander has received enough sunlight to start operating again.

Anti-obesity drugs’ anti-inflammation effect raises hopes that they could be used to treat diseases characterized by brain inflammation. Plus, a manatee-shaped nebula revealed a source of cosmic rays and poverty’s corrosive effects are also social and psychological.

The findings support a controversial hypothesis that proteins related to the neurodegenerative disease can be ‘seeded’ in the brain through material taken from cadavers.