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Germany digs reveal a large-scale operation 100,000 years earlier than oldest known fat rendering by modern humans.

Scientific research is at the heart of Israel’s success and has worldwide benefits. Our work will continue despite adversity.

Probing photons inside a barrier also challenges a long-standing interpretation of quantum physics.

Some European governments are rethinking the use of English in universities, exposing tensions between internationalization and national priorities.

Kits sold directly to consumers to check a variety of health metrics provide little value when it comes to guiding health decisions.

Mangled bones found at a one-time manufacturing facility pinpoint species used to make a quintessential condiment.

Research gives specific advice for conversations about vaccine hesitancy.

Experiments show some predators are easier to fool than others — plus, the researchers who built a Stone Age canoe and took it out to sea.

Sound-wave created by eruption in Tonga caused the atmosphere to warm over Mexico and the Caribbean.

A method based on boron-mediated assembly is described for the synthesis of tetrasubstituted alkenes, molecules with four substituents around the central C=C bond, with complete control over the double-bond geometry.

Stereoselective synthetic routes use P3HB (a polyester produced by bacteria) as a chiral feedstock for related polymers that have properties more amenable to processing and use.

Birds have an excellent ability to learn to discriminate harmless insects from those that they mimic on the basis of subtle differences in appearance.

Escherichia coli uses curli fibres, oligomers of the functional amyloid CsgA, as a barrier to protect against the predatory bacteria Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus and Myxococcus xanthus in a mechanism that is independent of genes required for biofilm formation.

A study using Arabidopsis shows that plants can monitor the integrity of their outer barriers by sensing gas diffusion, enabling them to initiate wound repair to prevent water loss and pathogen entry.

A stereotaxic atlas of the whole mouse brain, based on a Nissl-stained cytoarchitecture dataset with isotropic 1-μm resolution, achieved through continuous micro-optical sectioning tomography, promises to be a versatile brainsmatics tool for studying the whole brain at single-cell level.

Whole-genome sequencing of an ancient male Egyptian revealed a mixture of North African Neolithic and eastern Fertile Crescent ancestry, suggesting human migration between Egypt and Mesopotamia by the Old Kingdom period.

An analysis of data from the Sherlock-Lung study provides insight into the mutational processes that contribute to lung cancer in never smokers, and looks at the possible role of factors such as air pollution and passive smoking.

The Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues Network aims to create a reference catalogue of somatic mosaicism across different tissues and cells within individuals.

Spatially segregated rRNA processing dictates nucleolar morphology and drives outward progression of pre-ribosomal RNA through nucleolar phases.

A climate-trade-off risk curve derived from uncertainties in the radiative-forcing components indicates that focusing on reducing contrails or nitrogen oxide emissions is more effective than reducing CO₂ emissions.