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Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

Elizabeth Hilborn is among just a handful of people in the United States who are medically trained to treat honey bees.

A large cohort study measured how frequently women reported bleeding after receiving COVID-19 jabs.

It could have shown vision and leadership. Instead, the country that proudly hosted the 2021 COP26 climate summit is ignoring the advice of its own researchers.

Dolly-style animal cloning underpins CRISPR livestock, but changes loom for the field.

Only a fraction of the planet’s surface will be habitable to mammals when the next supercontinent, Pangaea Ultima, forms.

Research into vaccines, crop seeds and other innovations for low- or middle-income nations could be rewarded by offering longer patent coverage for profitable, non-essential inventions.

Christopher Reddy helped to quantify the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a stressful experience that changed his view of what it means to be a well-rounded scientist and person.

Samples collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission excite scientists with their potential to reveal secrets of the Solar System.

Device decades in the making senses very small alterations in Earth’s rotation.

Some researchers thank admin colleagues with chocolates or wine. But deadline pressures, and the need to generate research income, can sometimes result in bullying.

But to breach the Paris agreement’s limit, the heating must be sustained for many years.

A pattern of brain activity linked with recovery from severe depression could be used to improve therapies such as deep-brain stimulation

Questions remain about whether the AI tool for predicting protein structures can really shake up the pharmaceutical industry.

Some European governments are tightening their political grip on universities, sparking calls for action.

Researchers have shown that the creatures can learn to avoid obstacles using visual and mechanical cues, despite not having a brain.

The physician-researcher who spoke out against misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic says attacks against science are formidable — and getting worse.