Living on Mars would probably suck here’s why

Detectors deep in South Pole ice pin down elusive tau neutrino

Dogwhistles, drilling and the roots of Western civilization: Books in brief

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is transforming’ from repeated coral bleaching

Londoners see what a scientist looks like up close in 50 photographs

Why queasiness kills hunger: brain circuit identified

Burnt remains of Maya royalty mark a dramatic power shift

Violent volcanoes have wracked Jupiter’s moon Io for billions of years

Meet goldene’: this gilded cousin of graphene is also one atom thick

AI’s keen diagnostic eye

Nearly half of China’s major cities are sinking some rapidly’

This water bottle purifies your drink with energy from your steps

AI and robotics demystify the workings of a fly’s wing

DNA glycosylases provide antiviral defence in prokaryotes

Hybrid speciation driven by multilocus introgression of ecological traits

Methane emission from a cool brown dwarf

Stepwise activation of a metabotropic glutamate receptor

The economic commitment of climate change

Neural crest origin of sympathetic neurons at the dawn of vertebrates

Refining the impact of genetic evidence on clinical success

Seismological evidence for a multifault network at the subduction interface

Biogeographic response of marine plankton to Cenozoic environmental changes

Control of working memory by phase-amplitude coupling of human hippocampal neurons

Network-level encoding of local neurotransmitters in cortical astrocytes

Corner- and edge-mode enhancement of near-field radiative heat transfer

Brain endothelial GSDMD activation mediates inflammatory BBB breakdown

Stripped-envelope supernova light curves argue for central engine activity

Environmental drivers of increased ecosystem respiration in a warming tundra

Machine learning reveals the control mechanics of an insect wing hinge

Digital colloid-enhanced Raman spectroscopy by single-molecule counting

Streptomyces umbrella toxin particles block hyphal growth of competing species

Laser spectroscopy of triply charged 229Th isomer for a nuclear clock

Promiscuous G-protein activation by the calcium-sensing receptor

Control of neuronal excitation-inhibition balance by BMP-SMAD1 signalling

Smoking bans are coming: what does the evidence say?

Exploring the lung microbiome’s role in disease

Dad always mows on summer Saturday mornings

Researchers want a nutrition label’ for academic-paper facts

We must protect the global plastics treaty from corporate interference

Deadly diseases and inflatable suits: how I found my niche in virology research

Nanoparticle fix opens up tricky technique to forensic applications

How young people benefit from Swiss apprenticeships

Coupled neural activity controls working memory in humans

CERN’s impact goes way beyond tiny particles

UN plastics treaty: don’t let lobbyists drown out researchers

Canadian science gets biggest boost to PhD and postdoc pay in 20 years

Humans and their livestock have sheltered in this Saudi Arabian cave for 10,000 years

Keys, wallet, phone: the neuroscience behind working memory

I dive for fish in the longest freshwater lake in the world

Bacteria deploy umbrella toxins against their competitors