Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 28 August 2026

Do our best ideas come from the pub? Dr. Alfredo Carpineti bridges the lab and the lounge to find the "invisible rainbows" that connect us to the cosmos.

In this ‘Behind the Paper’ blog post, author Upama Aich – a Forrest Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia – discusses her paper “Developmental environ…

Abstract. Host-parasite co-evolution drives the diversification of host immune genes involved in the recognition of pathogen antigens and molecular pattern

Botany One interviews Dr Jerónimo Vázquez-Ramírez, a Mexican ecologist who has travelled around to research how plants regenerate through seeds and how it can better inform biodiversity conservation…

​Our research integrates evolutionary biology and microbiology, using bacteria and phage as study systems to address fundamental questions in both fields. ​ ​We study microbial evolution, a...

In their new documentary “Earth’s Greatest Enemy,” Abby Martin and Mike Prysner reveal that the climate and anti-war movements are really one and the same—because the U.S. military is the worst pollut...

Just returned from an excellent conference of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) in Barcelona. There was a lot of excell...

The long read: Churning quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at the rate we are going could lead the planet to another Great Dying

The results of technology research and development must find their way into the published literature. New models of regulation could help.

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Some meetings have been put on hold in response to foreign researchers’ travel concerns.

Jakub Pachocki, who leads the firm’s development of advanced models, is excited to release an open version to researchers.

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The president wants to balance U.S. trade deficits? He can’t do it without this industry he hates.

Individual researchers and university leaders need to make the case for science to their elected representatives and to the public at large.