From up in the air to deep beneath the ground, here is the new technology helping to enhance the way we live.

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 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 ...

Do your New Year resolutions include a plan to leave higher education? These researchers explain how to reinvent your career.

It is one year since Donald Trump began his second term as president of the United States and, with grant cuts and staff reductions, these 12 months have seen some seismic changes in US science. In ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

From tree branches to blood vessels, physical networks are often thought of as one-dimensional wires connecting points. In this view, the need to keep the overall ‘wire length’ to a minimum is thought ...

Although it has been established that human-induced warming increases the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, there has not been a comprehensive analysis of historical events. In this ...

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 ...

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 ...