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Volcanologist Maarten de Moor helps to warn local people of looming eruptions.

A multitude of missions are heading to the Moon — will they be successful?

Researchers say a highly effective jab will help to avoid hospitals getting overwhelmed, but probably won’t end to the country’s ‘zero COVID’ policy.

Sixteen world leaders have now promised to protect the ocean. Researchers need to work with them to create and improve measurable indicators.

A compound made by plants used in traditional medicine has been prepared by chemical synthesis, providing enough for biological testing. The unexpected finding that it acts at opioid receptors raises prospects for drug discovery.

COVID-19 vaccines are due for an upgrade, scientists say, but emerging variants and fickle immune reactions mean it’s not clear what new jabs should look like.

The legume’s history in West Africa is intimately linked with conquest.

Computational and experimental methods are bringing researchers closer to their goal of revealing exactly where in a cell or tissue each gene is expressed.

How a bacterium coordinates the assembly of its outer layers, and couples the formation of this envelope to cell growth and division, is not fully understood. Assessing the role of peptidoglycan molecules provides some answers.

We discuss the USA’s decision to authorize the Moderna and Pfizer COVID vaccines for children under five.

Andrew Robinson reviews five of the week’s best science picks.

A strong material becomes more rigid or more relaxed when its constituent gears are spun.

Years of studies point to the negative economic and health effects of restricting access to abortions.

US cases of liver inflammation among children have remained flat, but UK cases seem to have risen, leading some to suggest a coronavirus contribution.

Chemist who developed ways to synthesize and depict bioactive products.

A long-running La Niña climate event could persist into 2023. Plus, breast cancer cells are more likely to go rogue at night, and research to quantify and reduce inequality.

The lineages’ rise seems to stem from their ability to infect people who were immune to earlier forms of Omicron and other variants.

‘Microorganism’ is a misnomer when it comes to centimetre-long Thiomargarita magnifica.

African researchers have been warning about monkeypox outbreaks for years. As vaccines are deployed globally, they worry they will be left behind.

Meteorologists are forecasting a third consecutive year of La Niña. Some researchers say similar conditions could become more common as the planet warms.