The trials and tribulations of the world’s first seed bank reveal botanists’ enormous generosity and sacrifice during the siege of Leningrad.

Arachnologist Lauren Esposito develops community platforms to share LGBTQ+ voices and wants to shed light on the overlooked intersectional barriers affecting queer people of colour.

The developmental Genotype-Tissue Expression (dGTEx) projects will catalogue and integrate gene expression, regulation and genetics data across 120 human donors from birth to adulthood with ...

The Nobel prizewinner worked tirelessly with wife Rosalynn Carter to eradicate Guinea-worm disease.

These three scientists are pushing boundaries in their fields.

The cover highlights the mechanically self-organized pattern of scales on the head of a young Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus). Typically, vertebrate skin appendages such as scales, hairs or ...

A type of microRNA seems to revitalize old mice. Plus, the influence of US president Donald Trump on science in the United States, and on health and climate globally.

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Research and resources are crucial to educate parents and carers the world over about the best ways to manage their children’s use of social media.

Pharmaceuticals and vector-control programmes have greatly diminished the once-widespread disease, but sustained effort will be needed to stamp out infection for good.