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Advances recognized by science’s most lucrative awards include Large Hadron Collider experiments and groundbreaking weight-loss treatments.

The sunflower star, which can be bigger than a hubcap, escapes a wasting disease by hunkering down in fjords.

Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

Decision comes amidst mass layoffs — plus, administration instructs US biomedical agency to study ‘regret’ after transgender people transition.

Import taxes on staples such as microscopes, glassware and computer chips will affect institutions already feeling financial strain.

Arrests of scholars by US President Donald Trump’s administration prompts lawsuit alleging free-speech violations.

Lunar soil processed to form ‘moonglass’ allows the creation of efficient, radiation-resistant solar panels.

The new administration is reshaping the research landscape in the United States in profound ways. What do you think of all the changes?

In a world of constant stimulation, the thalamus filters which thoughts we become aware of and which we don’t.

After cancelling nearly all NIH projects studying transgender health, Trump’s team instructs the US biomedical agency to study negative consequences of transitioning.

Dozens of problematic papers remain in the literature, after a publication hit by fraudsters pledged to tackle the issue.

Smaller than a grain of rice, this injectable device could allow for minimally invasive heart-surgery — plus, research suggesting that a shingles vaccination reduces the risk of dementia.

A single dose of the drug nitisinone could render a person’s blood lethal to mosquitoes for five days, modelling suggests.

A chiral copper catalyst, generated in situ from commercially available components, can be used to achieve photoinduced deracemization of alkyl halides through carbon–halogen bond cleavage.

Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of 7 years by approximately one-fifth.

A general reinforcement-learning algorithm, called Dreamer, outperforms specialized expert algorithms across diverse tasks by learning a model of the environment and improving its behaviour by imagining future scenarios.