Gender discrimination, Brexit, and climate change are among the issues that have received considerable attention from the scientific community this year.

Editors’ picks of the year’s best in The Scientist infographics.

A sampling of some of the fascinating critters identified by scientists this year

Making the list: a journal breaks a retraction record, Nobel laureates Do the Right Thing, and Seinfeld characters write a paper 

How a new administration in the U.S. affected scientists around the world throughout 2017

Hurricanes, protests, and lifesaving genetic engineering: our picks for the biggest stories of the year

Techniques for comparing the relative abundances of glycans and glycoproteins in clinical samples

What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes

A round-up of recent discoveries in behavior research

What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes