Lukewarm efforts to get Britain to save on the energy bill, and a mysterious string of house-fly deaths, in our weekly dip into Nature ’s archive.

The scale of funding cuts in the United States means that countless scientists will lose their jobs. It would be naive not to start thinking about alternative career paths.

The US National Institutes of Health is still screening grants in process a judge ruled illegal last week. Plus, one researcher’s 40-year project to communicate with dolphins and a wake-up call ...

The ability to track neural activity as the brain develops in embryos is key to understanding how neurons self-assemble to form the vertebrate brain. In this week’s issue, Jia Liu and colleagues ...

As was realized after the Second World War, peace and prosperity stem from partnership and sustained investment in human development ...

The cover shows a satellite image of circular patches of irrigated land in the Western Desert in Egypt. Such land reclamation is one of many strategies that ...

Time-resolved cryo-electron microscopy can resolve protein motion on millisecond or even microsecond timescales, but the need for highly specialized tools and skills limits the method’s reach ...