ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Iodine helps map the ocean circulation

How quantum physics is revolutionising the measurement of time

SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY

Sustainable hand cream

How it works

Fresh genes today

MICROORGANISMS

Bacteria as virus-killers

Synthetic biology

Made-to-measure cells

GENETICS

Diversity issues for ibex

UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA

They want to believe

LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

No baby talk for baby apes

PEOPLE

Divided opinions

DIDACTICS

New dialogue skills for teachers

PUBLISHING

More ethics in human research

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Beware sentient bots

SATELLITENDATEN

The cause of forest decline in Madagascar

Numbers

Lots of money for national science, but few publications from Africa

Column

Marcel Tanner: Are we in the wrong movie?

Portrait

The computer scientist defending our privacy

SOCIETY

The broad spectrum of conspiracy theories