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The voracious Phillip Island centipede eats enough chicks and other large prey to play an important part in its home ecosystem.

Cheap, eco-friendly materials can be formed into vibrant 2D or 3D shapes.

Nature highlights three key infographics from the week in science and research.

Should wealthy nations give booster shots when billions remain unvaccinated?

A call for help.

Despite geneticists being warned about spreadsheet problems, 30% of published papers contain mangled gene names in supplementary data.

Researchers warn that plans to prevent the next global outbreak don’t consider the failures that have fuelled our current predicament.

Kelsey Inouye’s job search gave her panic attacks and dented her self-esteem. But she learnt to take rejection in her stride.

Planting forests outside the tropics can sequester carbon and counteract global warming.

The dusty disk around a black hole flashes on a characteristic schedule, offering a clue to its mass.

Substances made by gut microbes could account for a cognitive boost from faecal transplants.

Chemical analysis of an ice age woolly mammoth’s tusk reveals the huge distances it travelled during its lifetime more than 17,000 years ago.

Emerging data suggest that Delta could spread more readily than other coronavirus variants among people vaccinated against COVID-19. But key questions remain.

Intriguing rocks turned out to be too crumbly for Perseverance to drill successfully. It’s moving on to try elsewhere.

Printing technique could help to produce minute power sources for use in lightweight sensors and wearable devices.

Researchers uncover how grid cells fire to help bats navigate, and a fabric that switches between being stiff and flexible.

Andrew Robinson reviews five of the week’s best science picks.

The new 3D-printed material can switch from flexible to stiff and back again

Optical imaging of single-molecule electrochemical reactions in aqueous solution enables super-resolution electrochemiluminescence microscopy, which can be used to monitor the adhesion dynamics of live cells with high spatiotemporal resolution.