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Genomics could reveal details about the source of the country’s first outbreak in more than 100 days, says epidemiologist Amanda Kvalsvig.

One-time head of the US National Science Foundation Rita Colwell speaks out on sexism — and how her experiences as a leader in science can inform pandemic response.

Barry Simon linked a phenomenon that had shocked physicists to topology, the branch of mathematics that studies shapes.

Salim Abdool Karim says the country must rediscover its community spirit to deal with a coming surge in infections.

Noha Aboelata, the head of a community health centre in Oakland, California, tailors testing to suit communities of colour.

After two Black scholars shared their experiences on Twitter, a firestorm followed.

Scientists across the country are battling anti-science sentiment alongside a rapid increase in COVID-19 cases.

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins is at the forefront of a new crop of space explorers destined for the Moon, and maybe one day, Mars.

Arthur Turrell tells Nature how Bank of England researchers are fusing economics and epidemiology to study the complex effects of the pandemic.

Fearing an economic crisis of unprecedented proportions, Jim Yong Kim is rolling out a plan to halt the pandemic rather than weather it out.

Anders Tegnell talks to Nature about the nation’s ‘trust-based’ approach to tackling the pandemic.

Researchers at London’s Francis Crick Institute have repurposed equipment, reagents and software in response to the pandemic.

For the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, COVID-19 has forced a new way of doing business.

Radical proposal to conduct ‘human challenge’ studies could dramatically speed up vaccine research.

Structural biologist Rolf Hilgenfeld has been working on coronavirus treatments since the SARS outbreak.

Out-of-control blazes have killed a billion wild animals. Those remaining will struggle to survive in a scorched landscape, Michael Clarke tells Nature.

Wanda Diaz Merced is a blind astronomer who says that converting astronomical data into sound could bring discoveries that conventional techniques miss.

Joelle Pineau is leading an effort to encourage artificial-intelligence researchers to open up their code.

Ahead of this year’s award announcements, Göran Hansson speaks about measures to address the imbalance in gender and ethnicity among winners.

Britain’s outgoing chief medical officer, Sally Davies, says there are still clear gaps in the fight against antimicrobial resistance.