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Authors in the 1920s and 1970s had different takes on how science would shape the future. Nature’s reviewers had similarly diverse views on how accurate these predictions would be.

Despite meeting a clinical and societal need for snakebite antivenom development, VenomAb folded after four years, propelling co-founder Andreas Laustsen-Kiel to a role that combines entrepreneurship and academia.

The UN wants to put communities at the heart of its data-collection efforts in support of the Sustainable Development Goals. Now governments must step up.

If the European Medicines Agency takes an overly cautious approach to selecting specialists to advise on new medicines, people could be left without treatments.

Sources say the nations are close to a deal, but the looming US presidential election is likely bogging it down.

Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

As the only ocularist in Uganda, Franklin Wasswa produces customized prosthetic eyes for people who’ve lost their own to injury or disease.

Rejuvenated eggs were more likely to result in healthy offspring.

Large-scale evaluation permeates the UK university system, but some countries are rejecting harsh judgements and emphasizing strategic development.

The first face transplant to also include an eyeball was a surgical coup — but restoring vision remains a challenge.

Scientists come together for unexpected discoveries and ‘collateral happiness’. Plus, ways to persuade a climate sceptic and how the brain knows whether you should cough or sneeze.

The Pathoplexus database has sequences from Ebola, West Nile virus and another dangerous pathogen.

As wildfires become more frequent and severe, efforts to improve the resilience of forests must be grounded in data and led by Indigenous Peoples.

The engagement-fuelled logic of social media has bequeathed us a world in which what’s trending is a yardstick for what’s true.

The aquatic mammals disperse seeds of their favourite foods as they migrate, according to a serendipitous study of their poo.