Shared pain

COVID research prizes, CRISPR-like enzymes and a face-mask trial

The mentoring messages that can get lost in translation

Politics will be poorer without Angela Merkel’s scientific approach

Reproducibility: expect less of the scientific paper

Africa: invest in local manufacturing of COVID-19 vaccines

Home working in COVID times: longer hours, fewer phone calls

A sweet tooth gave ancient primates a mouthful of woe

Afghanistan: conflict risks local and global health

Anthropocene: event or epoch?

Preventing spillover as a key strategy against pandemics

From the archive

The tangled history of mRNA vaccines

Daily briefing: Cows learn to use the loo

Multicomponent alkene azido-arylation by anion-mediated dual catalysis

Virus-induced senescence is driver and therapeutic target in COVID-19

Puffins and friends suffer in washing-machine waves

Breeding the sweetest biofuels in the business

Swedish research misconduct agency swamped with cases in first year

Marauding elephants, menacing macaques and epicurean bears

Springboard to science: the institutions that shaped Black researchers’ careers

Women less likely to win major research awards

Biology must generate ideas as well as data

Edmond Fischer (1920-2021)

Daily briefing: Mathematicians revive a miraculous’, incomprehensible proof

Preprint advocates must also fight for research integrity

COVID in kids and fossil-fuel limits the week in infographics

Pivotal climate summit dogged by COVID and equity concerns

Trove of CRISPR-like gene-cutting enzymes found in microbes

How COVID is derailing the fight against HIV, TB and malaria

Five books from the Alnif Crater travelling library

Daily briefing: Adults with sickle-cell disease are being left behind

A simulation exposes the secret spread of hospital infections

Face masks for COVID pass their largest test yet

Flowing crystals for quick camouflage

COVID advances win US 3-million Breakthrough prizes

Hurricane Ida forces Louisiana researchers to rethink their future

China prepares to test thorium-fuelled nuclear reactor

Daily briefing: Ground-breaking carbon capture plant starts up

Quantum gas free-falls its way to a low-temperature record

Seismic sleuths unmask the earthquake’ that wasn’t

An easily swallowed capsule injects drugs straight into the gut

The billion years missing from Earth’s history

World’s most northern island and climate change’s role in floods

Using DNA sequencing data to quantify T cell fraction and therapy response

Tunable self-assembled Casimir microcavities and polaritons

Transmembrane transport in inorganic colloidal cell-mimics

Positive allosteric mechanisms of adenosine A1 receptor-mediated analgesia

Cells of the human intestinal tract mapped across space and time

Unextractable fossil fuels in a 1.5 C world