Dr Matthias Rillig gives advice for PhD students, postdocs and group leaders on how to navigate the various challenges that academia presents.

Dr Matthias Rillig gives advice for PhD students, postdocs and group leaders on how to navigate the various challenges that academia presents.


In June 2023, four volunteers will spend a year pretending to live on the red planet inside the Mars Dune Alpha habitat.

Your brain has stored associations that help it to quickly answer questions. Impact on biases?

Nikon’s Small World showcases the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope. Applications are now open for the 2023 awards.


63-year-old artist Simon Beck makes colossal yet intricate designs on the unlikely canvas of enormous snowfields. Beck treks for hours carving with his feet, creating snow sculptures over a quarter mile long.

In the first discovery of its kind, an insect stole a plant gene to elude its host’s defences. That’s one way to create a new pest-control strategy!

A goldfish in a tiny robotic vehicle is proving that animals from different environments can still find their way around when you take them out of their comfortable habitats
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