Dis-assembly�, Daniel Kohn s interpretation of a chromothripsis event from his series Thinking about Science � DataSets�. Chromothripsis, a dramatic chromosomal event involving ...

Governments see coronavirus apps as key to releasing lockdowns. In exchange for people’s health data, they must promise to work together to develop the highest standards of safety and efficacy. Africa ...

The traditional model of the US research university — based on the pre-eminence of the single-discipline department — needs to be stretched and challenged.

In this issue, Elly Tanaka, Eugene Myers and their colleagues report the 32-billion-base genome of the axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum), a model organism for developmental, regeneration and evolutionary ...

General relativity says that when two massive objects such as black holes or neutron stars fly past each other, gravitational interactions will change their trajectories and gravitational waves will ...

Vaclav Smil’s latest book investigates the cost of energy use on a planet with finite resources. Melanie Moses praises the result.

A timely rescue from a ‘too clever’ idea.

The cover shows a light sensor from the Kilometre Cube Neutrino Telescope (KM3NeT) at sunset above the Mediterranean Sea. This is one of thousands of sensors that are currently being assembled into ...

The appearance of embryos in related species converges midway through development and diverges thereafter, a phenomenon known as the developmental hourglass. The hourglass model builds on classic ...

The cover shows the first image of the near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu taken by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The mission ultimately aims to collect samples from the asteroid’s surface, but the ...

The cover shows the Amundsen Sea, offshore of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. As Tyler Jones and his colleagues reveal in this issue, this region experienced a large change in year-to-year climate ...

The Biodiversity Cell Atlas aims to create comprehensive single-cell molecular atlases across the eukaryotic tree of life, which will be phylogenetically informed, rely on high-quality genomes and use ...