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After Russia’s invasion, politicians promised to boost military research funding — but policy specialists aren’t convinced that a rapid change lies ahead.

Snippets from Nature’s past.

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

Before diving into new economic waters, establish what must be done for the land.

Biden signs historic legislation to pour billions into fighting climate change as the global temperature continues to rise.

Powerful ‘grammar’ allows geneticists to display their data in interactive and scalable illustrations.

Trees are one of our biggest carbon hopes. Supporting the scientists studying them should be a much higher priority.

We examine seven charts showing the potential impacts of new abortion restrictions in the United States. Plus: The latest research on how monkeypox spreads.

Observations that physicists have so far failed to replicate could be the result of misinterpreted data.

Increasing the interval between the first two mRNA-vaccine doses might boost children’s immunity, but it is a gamble as a new variant sweeps the globe.

Nature editors take on the big topics that matter in science.

Confirmation of a second planet around the star μ² Scorpii would indicate the first planetary system at a supernova-in-waiting.

The world’s record holders are in Antarctica, regardless of how ‘glacier’ is defined.

PhD student Gianluca Torta contributes to green recycling by extracting rare-earth metals from industrial landfill for reuse in electric motors.

Bystander-intervention programmes use humour and other tools to call out bullying and harassment in science.