The cover shows members of a local community in the Western Province of the Solomon Islands taking part in a traditional fish drive, in which multiple members of a community work together to make the ...

Documents that lay out a research group’s ethos and practical guidelines are becoming increasingly popular in the academic community.

The cover shows birdcage evening primroses (Oenthera deltoides) flowering in Joshua Tree National Park, California. The seasonal rhythms of plant growth can vary substantially from place to place, and ...

The cover captures a hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus) in South Africa. Although maintaining biodiversity is core to sustainable development, policymakers frequently lack context-specific information ...

Genetic variations affect biological processes and can drive disease, but deciphering the precise effects of DNA sequence changes remains a significant challenge. This is especially true when the ...

Artificial-intelligence systems are feeding on Wikipedia without giving back, and academic indifference is threatening the survival of what is arguably the most widely used reference work on the ...

Although the soma ages during life, the germ line of multicellular organisms does not. Here it is shown that Caenorhabditis elegans mutants with increased longevity turn on gene expression programs in ...

The cover features a close-up of the eastern green mamba (Dendroaspis angusticeps), one of many highly venomous snake species found in sub-Saharan Africa. Bites from venomous snakes are a major health ...

Tying knots in surgical sutures requires precise amounts of force — too little force and the sutured wound will gape and leak, too much and the wound will bloat and blood flow becomes restricted.

Our ability to process information into complex emotions, behaviours and decisions relies on the rich diversity of cell types that make up the human brain. Uncovering the molecular and cellular events ...

One of the features that sets mammals apart from other vertebrates is their jaw — most jawed vertebrates have several bones in their lower jaw, but mammals have just one. The evolution of this jaw ...

Car wheels and billiard balls follow a linear path when they roll down a flat slope. More exotically shaped solids, such as oloids, trace a sinusoid-like route. In this week’s issue, Bartosz ...