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Funding for one of the world’s oldest high-altitude research facilities is drying up. Plus: quake detections on Mars and how scientists will use the Tiangong space station.
Aye-ayes use their long, skinny middle fingers to pick their noses, and eat the mucus. Plus: preparing for the next pandemic and what the future holds for science in China.
Outbreaks of avian influenza are leaving a path of destruction across Europe and North America. Plus: bacteria that could survive on Mars for 280 million years.
The flu virus and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) can fuse together to create a virus that can evade the human immune system. Plus: A breakthrough cancer drug brings hope
Inside the red-hot debate over perilous COVID research, plus how Internet sleuths have raised concerns about image integrity in the work of a Nobel-prizewinning scientist.
Our pick of top science books to read this week includes an engaging and urgent look at the “hidden universe” of biodiversity and a physicist’s guide to life’s biggest questions. Plus: How UK universities are grappling with the legacy of imperialism
Meet the first known Neanderthal family ever found. Plus, the bubonic plague left lingering scars on the human genome and scientists’ share their personal experiences of racism.
Kenyan environmentalist and climate activist Elizabeth Wathuti writes about the unequal burden of loss and damage caused by climate change and her hopes for the next United Nations climate conference, COP27, in November.
Researchers are working on an ‘e-nose’ that could someday assist people who have lost their sense of smell. Plus, optical clocks could redefine the second and a telescope-blinding burst could be the brightest of all time.
The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico will not be reconstructed following its catastrophic collapse two years ago. Plus, the UK is spending more on R&D than it thought it was and meet a turtle-inspired robot that can conquer land and sea.
How researchers mapped a mouse’s brain activity faster than ever before. Plus, how to recycle mixed plastics into useful chemicals and the five best science books this week.
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) altered a space rock’s movement by even more than expected. Plus, a boom in high-level biosafety laboratories, and the future of monkeypox around the world.
Meet the winners of the economics Nobel prize. Plus, why research helps hospitals to flourish and how Mars microbes might have done themselves in with methane
Melting will have far-reaching consequences for those who depend on the rivers fed by Himalayan glaciers. Plus, the people fighting to save the Peruvian Amazon and how to recycle whole buildings.
Meet the winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, hear a call to care for Earth’s microbiome and learn that the world’s largest fund to detect and treat tuberculosis, AIDS and malaria is not getting the money it needs.
Evidence is building that the Northern Hemisphere is on course for a surge of COVID-19 cases this autumn and winter. Plus, a Nobel prize for ‘spooky’ quantum entanglement, and a call to reward research for being useful — not just flashy.
Meet the winner of the medicine Nobel prize, consider how genes can affect lifespan and learn how a public-health approach can help to reduce gun injuries in the United States.
Two studies have found the clearest link yet between cancer and fungi. Plus, we look at the cause and environmental impact of mysterious leaks in the Nord Stream gas pipelines, and promising results from an Alzheimer’s drug trial.
