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A draft of the agreement highlights vaccine and drug equity but lacks teeth to enforce it, say researchers.

Satellite transmitters help Cristina Miranda to understand the movements and habitats of endangered hawksbill sea turtles in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

Turkey and Syria's buildings have always been vulnerable to earthquakes – war has made things worse.

Barbara Rae-Venter’s account of her genetic sleuthing illustrates the power of technologies to bring criminals to justice. But should there be limits to their use?

Approaches to capturing the benefits of research on society are improving — but huge challenges remain.

Researchers are excited but apprehensive about the latest advances in artificial intelligence.

Analysis finds antimicrobial drug use in agriculture is much higher than reported.

Signals from gut microorganisms to the brain might be involved in neurodegeneration. It emerges that the gene APOE — variants of which each confer a different risk of Alzheimer’s disease — has a role in modulating this gut–brain communication.

Individual atoms trapped by optical ‘tweezers’ are emerging as a promising computational platform.

Science is in good shape when its leaders can acknowledge things that go wrong, says Fiona Watt.

Models show that four closely spaced eruptions would have interfered with Nile River patterns that aided farmers.

Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

Benefit-sharing is the best way out of the Nile-dam deadlock between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan, study finds.

But researchers say much more is needed to achieve the country’s climate goals.

Conversational AI is a game-changer for science. Here’s how to respond.

Biologist who revolutionized the chromatin and gene-expression field.