On 11 February, we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science with the aim of eliminating gender stereotypes in the field of science and technology.
A recent study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B suggests that emotional empathy may be a key component of grandmaternal responses to their grandchildren.
Last Saturday, NASA launched the Lucy probe to study the Trojan asteroids in Jupiter's orbit, which are expected to provide key data on the development of our Solar System.
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics has recognised the work in the study of complex systems in nature, but Ferran Martin looks at other complex systems in his particular look at this week's news.