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Monitoring complex hyena societies in the wild sheds light on factors that predict whether individuals will engage in a risky collective activity.

Louis De Grandpré studies the traditional lands of Canada’s Pessamit people in the face of widespread logging.

Bespoke cryo-electron microscope reveals 3D details of cellular structures — and is an order of magnitude cheaper than its rivals.

RNA biologist Vivian Cheung accuses the institute of discrimination after it rejected her grant-renewal bid.

Tumours respond more readily to radiation and other therapies in mice without a specific protein in their dendritic cells.

Researchers find massive merger’s signature aftershocks hidden in 2019 data from LIGO and Virgo detectors.

Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

COP28 started with the first cash pledged for countries devastated by climate change. Plus, penguins survive on thousands of microsleeps and how to finally end the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Start with pen and paper, keep things simple, do your coding at the end, say data visualisation specialists.

Assessing global mean temperature rise using the average warming over the previous one or two decades will delay formal recognition of when Earth breaches the Paris agreement’s 1.5 °C guard rail. Here is what’s needed to avoid the wait.

An accidental meeting.

Health is on the agenda at the COP28 climate meeting. Rising temperatures increase the spread of infectious diseases, claim lives and drive food insecurity.

Mathematical biologist, philosopher and historian of science who challenged the vision of science as a masculine activity.

Sensors deployed at magnetically quiet rural sites looked for axions and ‘hidden photons’ — with no luck yet.

The ‘anthrobots’ were able to repair a scratch in a layer of neurons in the lab.

The power naps of the chinstrap penguin are even briefer and more frequent when it is tending eggs.

The bottlenose dolphin’s keen ‘electroreception’ sense might help it to locate buried prey and navigate the seas.