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Anthropologist Nosipho Mngomezulu finds podcasting an authentic, immediate way to reach an audience.

The month’s sharpest science shots — selected by Nature’s photo team.

Responses to financial crashes, pandemics and other crises spur progress, through cycles of inward and outward change.

For all the controversy over decentralized contact-tracing apps, data show that these privacy-preserving tools saved thousands of lives during the pandemic. National and international authorities must invest in the technology now.

Complexes formed from ‘nanobodies’ and an antiviral drug halt infection in its tracks.

This fake raspberry allows researchers to train fruit-picking robots in the lab before field tests.

Neural activity show an ‘active’ sleep stage similar to REM sleep in mammals.

Methods to insert, swap or delete atoms in the backbones of molecules could transform medicinal chemistry.

Astrophysicists describe what galaxy-wide gravitational waves could mean for our understanding of black holes and the history of the cosmos.

The European craft could help to investigate why the Universe’s expansion is accelerating, along with other cosmic questions.

The vaccine was inspired by COVID jabs, but if it is approved, it will be delivered in edible bait.

See researchers’ favourites from a survey of the deep Universe by the James Webb Space Telescope.

Workshops and training programmes tackle failure and how to recover from it.

Decision to make the previously illicit drugs available is dogged by suggestions the decision was rushed.

Using beacon stars called pulsars, a decades-long effort has found space-time ripples that are light years wide.

Pay and benefits top the list of concerns identified by US working group.