The fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago united Europe’s scientists. But continuing fractures in East–West collaboration must be healed. Anxiety and depression in graduate students is worsening. The ...

From aviation to wind turbines to blood flow, the turbulent flow of fluids presents significant challenges in physics, engineering and medicine. The root of the problem is the fact that turbulence is ...

The literature has failed to acknowledge many female researchers, especially those from marginalized backgrounds. But a new generation of historians is changing the narrative.

Little is known about what determines the migratory routes taken by birds in the Arctic. In this week’s issue, Xiangjiang Zhan and his colleagues examine the routes taken by the peregrine falcon ...

Advances in nanofabrication have enabled studies of chirality to extend from conventional ‘mirror image’ molecules seen in organic chemistry to three-dimensional metallic nanostructures. Similar to ...

Fluorescence microscopy has enabled high-resolution images to be captured of molecular processes in live cells, but the need for an external light source can cause issues. An alternative approach is ...

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For the past few decades, the Antarctic Ice Sheet has been steadily losing mass as a result of climate change. But between 2021 and 2023, something surprising happened: the rate of ice loss slowed ...

Many UK universities are in a financial crisis. But the government is leaving them to flounder, treating higher education as a private-sector industry and research as a public investment. Online ...

As part of the ongoing changes in scientific publishing, which aim to increase the readership, reach and impact of published research, many journals are moving from the traditional, subscription-based ...

The terrestrial planets in our Solar System are thought to have formed from a mixture of interstellar solids and rocky material that precipitated out from the cooling hot gas around the young Sun. The ...

Viral sequences from Chilean mummies confirm smallpox was introduced to the Americas from Europe. Plus, the month’s best science images and the changing patterns of Europe’s wildfires.