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Science is beginning to uncover the multiple processes driving persistent pain. But connecting people with treatments that will help them remains a challenge.

Three years on, scientist mums implore universities, funding agencies and publishers to heed calls to account for COVID-19 disruptions.

As the effects of climate change grow, scientists from fields spanning astronomy to biology are trying to decarbonize their research.

Conservation biologist Andrea Terán-Valdez aims to protect endangered frogs in Ecuador by breeding populations, cataloguing new species and fighting industrial development.

Both marsupial and placental mammals draw on the same genes to form their aerofoil skin flaps.

Dust rich in silicon and oxygen churns through the atmosphere of a young giant planet.

Transient absorption with N prescribed excitation intensities allows isolation of N increasingly nonlinear responses, enabling separation of single- and multiple-exciton dynamics.

What are the benefits of a fish-rich diet, not only for nutrition and health but also for the environment, economies and sustainability? A new framework offers a way to assess the benefits and trade-offs on national and global scales.

When the MIT molecular biologist quantified how much more lab space men were given, she unleashed a US-wide reckoning about how women are held back in academia.

Telescope didn’t spot an atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1b, but has kicked off a new era in understanding planetary evolution.

Repairs to DNA allow stem cells to develop into T cells.

William Harris is fascinated by the complexities of neural development. He turned to a sport he loves to explain it to a general audience.

Knowing how long it takes to complete specific work tasks stops work creeping into every part of your life. Plus, an elusive shape that forms never-repeating patterns, and a recipe for a seven-ingredient ‘space salad’.