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Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

The energy drink ingredient offers striking health benefits in mice, monkeys and worms. But more work is needed to investigate its link with ageing.

Goopy ‘biofilms’ normally serve as a protective shield, but Vibrio cholerae uses them to kill immune cells.

The high cost of ‘reformatting’ prompts a call for journals to change their requirements.

Decades of data show the widespread belief that morality is waning is an illusion. Plus, the first images of the tallest tree in the Amazon and a ‘lost world’ of previously unknown microorganisms that once dominated complex life on Earth.

Called MINFLUX, the super-resolution method allows researchers to track molecules under cellular conditions.

After gulls switched their focus from southern right whale mothers to calves, scientists recorded a drop in calf survival.

Our second global survey of postdoctoral researchers is now live, with new questions to reflect seismic changes to the world of work since 2020.

Digits made of soft materials tap out a melody from the composer’s Ninth Symphony on a keyboard.

Saying ‘no’ to this kind of visual content is a question of research integrity, consent, privacy and intellectual-property protection.

Research reveals system underlying behaviour change towards young, and identifying the source of fast solar wind.

Efforts to discourage new smokers and help people to quit are bringing smoking rates down in many places, but it’s going to take more to put an end to tobacco smoking altogether.

The chemical composition of the Galactic halo star J1010+2358 shows extremely low sodium and cobalt abundances, different from most other halo stars, indicative of a very metal-poor star being seeded with elements from a pair-instability supernova.

Our experimental proof of chiral phonons demonstrates a degree of freedom in condensed matter that is of fundamental importance and opens the door to exploration of emergent phenomena based on chiral bosons.

Genome sequencing of nine individuals shows ancestry shifts in the Neolithization of northwestern Africa that probably mirrored a heterogeneous economic and cultural landscape in a more multifaceted process than observed in other regions.

Covalent organic molecules can be combined with ionic inorganic molecules to create a hybrid material demonstrating paradoxical mechanical properties in a bottom-up manner, enabling the manufacture of an ‘elastic ceramic plastic’.