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More controversy plagues this would-be COVID treatment as influential study is withdrawn

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

The sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance rover might be volcanic, helping scientists to understand the red planet's evolution.

The details align with Plan S — but UKRI hasn’t yet decided whether to pay for open-access publishing in some hybrid journals.

Data on the variant’s spread in India make researchers fearful for areas in developing nations that lack health care and vaccines.

Theoretical physicist whose electroweak theory won the Nobel prize.

Rounded with a sleep.

Tao Chen’s university spin-off was short-lived, but he’s still buzzing with business ideas as he prepares to return to academia.

A single genetic toolkit gives rise to the spider-lookalike’s slender gams and to the grasping legs of related animals.

Squirrels show off multiple landing styles as they speed through the canopy.

Experiments suggest that the frogs use internal proteins to soak up their own toxins.

But a study of the publications of millions of researchers also suggests that women are less likely to continue their academic careers than their male counterparts.

Fears of backfire effects are overblown, and advice to listen and interact still stands.

The first assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change in eight years will sound the alarm on soaring temperatures, rising seas and extreme weather.

Analysis reveals that strange turns of phrase may indicate foul play in science.

Concerns over waning immunity and SARS-CoV-2 variants have convinced some countries to deploy extra vaccine doses — but it’s not clear to scientists whether most people need them.

One researcher's unorthodox quest to listen to a Greenland glacier.

The latest science news, in brief.

Satellite imaging has shown population increases are 10x higher in flood prone areas than previously thought, and a new way to introduce fairness into a democratic process.

High-resolution observations confirm that Jupiter’s global upper atmosphere is heated by transport of energy from the polar aurora.