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Astronomer Desireé Cotto-Figueora detects and characterizes near-Earth asteroids to identify potential hazards.

Leading biomedical researchers outline their priorities for the incoming administration.

Rich countries will ‘take the lead’ in finding US$300 billion annually in climate finance to poor countries — but must do it without the United States.

A mesmerizing global tour will make readers question what they think they know about mushrooms.

Methods for exploring the geography of molecular-scale processes within tissue samples are transforming cancer research, but the toolbox can be daunting.

Anti-Russian sentiment and government sanctions have left many Russian scientists struggling to develop their careers abroad.

Sustainable-development researcher Olena Melnyk talks about moving her life and research career from Ukraine to Switzerland.

In 1984, scientists made a crystalline alloy that had a seemingly impossible arrangement of atoms. They had discovered the first quasicrystal — a type of material that transformed ideas about how atoms can be ordered in solids.

Relatively warm regions of the object called Makemake could also be explained by a dusty planetary ring.

Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

Stimulating certain brain cells in mice seems to ease anxiety without causing hallucination-like effects.

The only continent where amber had not been found no longer has that distinction, thanks to a sediment core drilled just offshore.

All or nothing.

David Posner hopes that his teaching and outreach programmes could apply to other low- and middle-income countries.

Microorganisms on a sample of asteroid are clearly terrestrial — despite strict protocols to avoid contamination.

Six years of observations show that play encourages group efforts and eases tension between adult chimpanzees.

Half a dozen drugs are in trials for conditions of the brain, but success is not guaranteed.

Venomous snakes kill tens of thousands of people each year. Treatments that are simpler to administer and more effective than conventional antivenom could curb this number.

Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg worried that choosing to have children during her graduate studies might signal a lack of career dedication.