Flasks have long been the fundamental piece of equipment for chemical syntheses and separations. In recent years, batch-reactor and flow-based systems have been created to run multistep processes ...

A simple celebratory post about completing my PhD went viral for all the wrong reasons. Here’s how I managed the backlash and used the attention to promote my research.

Antarctic ice cores hint that changes in the ocean might have played a larger part than have greenhouse gases in key climate shifts of the past three million years.

The Indus Waters Treaty withstood several armed conflicts and a huge loss of glaciers. It should serve as a blueprint for others.

Superluminous supernovae are at least ten times brighter than their regular counterparts, but astronomers have remained in the dark about what exactly powers these phenomena. In this week’s issue, ...

In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission performed the remarkable feat of returning samples from the asteroid Bennu to Earth. Key to this effort was the careful containment of the samples, keeping them free ...

Artificial intelligence has taken on and beaten human competitors in many games, including chess, StarCraft and Gran Turismo. But such successes have largely been limited to board games or virtual ...

The cover shows a woman laying sprats out to dry in the sun near the shore of Lake Tanganyika in Kigoma, Tanzania. Sprats, like other small fish, provide livelihoods and access to healthy diets to ...

The detection and monitoring of asteroids is key to protecting Earth from impacts. Large bodies (1 kilometre or more) in the main asteroid belt are relatively easy to spot and monitor but smaller ...

A Go board depicted as a computer chip embedded on an integrated circuit board. The layout is taken from the final position of the historic Go game played on 5 October 2015 between Fan Hui (black ...

The US National Institutes of Health will now focus on ‘unsolicited’ research proposals driven by the interests of individual scientists. Plus, the oldest known recording of a whale’s song and how ...

The cover shows an artist’s impression of SARS-CoV-2 in the bloodstream based on the latest cryo-EM images of the virus, with neutralizing antibodies (yellow) attaching to the spike protein on the ...