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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.

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.

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.

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.

A group of researchers say that a high-profile theory about consciousness is receiving undue attention and can’t be empirically tested. Plus, world leaders have pledged to redouble their efforts towards the Sustainable Development Goals and ancient whittled logs could be the earliest known wooden structure.

A special package explores problems and solutions to the geography of injustice.

Large-scale survey reveals the diversity of viruses in small mammals, which can be sources of viruses that hop to humans.

United Nations secretary-general António Guterres proposes US$500 billion annual stimulus package to meet the Sustainable Development Goals.

The synthesis and isolation of a crystalline dication derived from a bis(imino)carbene through a two-electron oxidation/oxide-ion abstraction strategy is reported that bypasses the carbene radical cation, maintaining significant electrophilicity with two accessible vacant orbitals.