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  • Nature Outlook |

    The human brain isn’t much to look at. In the hand, it is a jelly-like mass, easily deformed by touch. But its unassuming appearance belies complex inner workings, many of which are still a mystery to scientists.

    Image: Sam Falconer

  • Nature Outlook |

    People’s reliance on sight means eyes are especially important among the body’s organs.

    Image: Taj Francis

  • Nature Outlook |

    Other than plain water, tea is the world’s favourite beverage. Researchers are now uncovering its biological secrets, opening the door to an array of potential benefits.

    Image: Susan Burghart

  • Nature Outlook |

    After a roller-coaster ride of hype and disappointment, the decades-long effort to cure diseases by repairing or replacing faulty genes is starting to yield useful treatments. Diseases that have defied treatment could be reversed by a one-time fix to a faulty gene.

    Image: Sam Falconer

  • Nature Outlook |

    The digital world is already crucial to the functioning of society, but the revolution is far from over. As the underlying technology becomes more sophisticated and pervasive, society will surely feel its impact in new and unexpected ways.

    Image: Jan Kallwejt

  • Nature Outlook |

    Skin is the body’s largest organ and first line of defence against disease and injury. Researchers have been working to unlock skin’s secrets so as to help heal, treat and mimic this essential barrier

    Image: Marco Melgrati

  • Nature Outlook |

    Each year, more than 400,000 people worldwide develop tumours of the lymphatic system (lymphoma), and around half that number die from the disease. Better treatments are especially being sought for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma — the incidence of which is climbing but for which successful treatments are elusive.

  • Nature Outlook |

    If the goal of science is to improve people’s lives, it is to the world’s poorer nations that researchers should look.

    Image: Taj Francis

  • Nature Outlook |

    A strong background in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is crucial not only for students who go on to become scientists. The jobs of the future, in a variety of sectors, will increasingly require skills in STEM subjects. This Outlook looks at the ways in which science education is being modernized and updated to help prepare young people for life in the twenty-first century.

    Image: Sébastien Thilbault

  • Nature Outlook |

    Brain cancer is one of the most aggressive and difficult-to-treat malignancies. Moreover, in the almost 50 years since the start of the war on cancer, the prospects for people who develop brain cancer have improved much more slowly than those of individuals with other types of cancer.

    Image: Daria Kirpach

  • Nature Outlook |

    Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia. For decades, researchers have sought a treatment to no avail, and our understanding of the condition is now being questioned.

    Image: Giulio Bonasera

  • Nature Outlook |

    There is fresh hope for treating Huntington’s disease, an inherited neurodegenerative condition that causes uncontrollable movements, emotional disturbance and the loss of mental abilities. But biological mysteries remain.

    Image: Neil Webb