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Manipulating micrometre-sized matter is not easy. Optical tweezers, which use tightly focused light beams to move matter, are extremely precise but limited by the very light forces they can apply.

Artefacts from a Mesopotamian archaeological site suggest that people in the region founded and later rejected an early form of the organized state.

Parkinson’s disease is characterized by the loss of neurons that produce the neurotransmitter dopamine. A cure for the condition remains elusive, and current treatments focus on relieving the symptoms ...

The cover shows heavy storms over Ostfriesland in Germany. In general, economic assessments of the effects of climate change do not include daily rainfall. In this week’s issue, Leonie Wenz and her ...

The extent to which Earth’s surface materials are recycled into the deep mantle is difficult to evaluate. In this week’s issue, Evan Smith and his colleagues shed light on the matter through an ...

The cover shows a thermal image of the carbonaceous (C-type) asteroid 162173 Ryugu. C-type asteroids formed some 4.6 billion years ago and are made up of primitive materials that could shed light on ...

The cover shows the structure of the interstellar magnetic field overlaid on the Taurus molecular cloud. During star formation, the interstellar magnetic field dissipates and molecular clouds collapse ...

Collaboration across institutes can train students in open, team science, which better prepares them for challenges to come, says Katherine Button.

Potentially fraudulent papers often cite each other and could be inflating the impact factor of journals in which they are published. With the far-right Alternative for Germany leading in polls for ...

The cover shows black sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum), one of the two main species of Saccharum that have been crossed to form modern hybrid sugarcane cultivars. Sugarcane is the world’s leading ...