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As the neurotechnology market expands, what happens to those left behind?

Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

The energy-drink ingredient offers striking health benefits in mice, monkeys and worms. But more work is needed to investigate its link with ageing.

Survey of nearly 13,000 Icelanders pinpoints for the first time a genetic variant that shapes whether a person’s voice sounds high.

Researchers speak out over US biomedical agency’s new funding policy.

Extensive flooding could have severe consequences for farming, health and the environment.

Hot, dry weather and human carelessness have led to a huge burnt area — and to choking haze affecting millions of people.

Goopy ‘biofilms’ normally serve as a protective shield, but Vibrio cholerae uses them to kill immune cells.

The high cost of ‘reformatting’ prompts a call for journals to change their requirements.

Decades of data show the widespread belief that morality is waning is an illusion. Plus, the first images of the tallest tree in the Amazon and a ‘lost world’ of previously unknown microorganisms that once dominated complex life on Earth.

Called MINFLUX, the super-resolution method allows researchers to track molecules under cellular conditions.

After gulls switched their focus from southern right whale mothers to calves, scientists recorded a drop in calf survival.

Our second global survey of postdoctoral researchers is now live, with new questions to reflect seismic changes to the world of work since 2020.

Digits made of soft materials tap out a melody from the composer’s Ninth Symphony on a keyboard.

Saying ‘no’ to this kind of visual content is a question of research integrity, consent, privacy and intellectual-property protection.

Research reveals system underlying behaviour change towards young, and identifying the source of fast solar wind.

Efforts to discourage new smokers and help people to quit are bringing smoking rates down in many places, but it’s going to take more to put an end to tobacco smoking altogether.