The magazine section of eLife offers easily accessible summaries of some of the most interesting and significant research published in the journal. It also features articles exploring research culture, funding, scientific careers, and a variety of other topics affecting researchers around the world.
In 2024, we asked readers how they would like to stay up to date with the magazine. A newsletter that delivers content straight to people’s inbox was top of the list – and later that year, eLife Magazine Highlights was launched.
What’s in the newsletter?
Delivered every two weeks, the newsletter contains a list of recently published magazine content that has been hand-picked by the eLife Magazine team. This includes:
- Features: articles discussing topics of broad interest to readers in the life and biomedical sciences, such as research culture, science policy, funding, and publishing
- Digests: short summaries of research articles that cut through the jargon
- Insights: pieces written by experts that explain why the results of a study are significant in its field
- Podcasts: conversations with authors of eLife papers that explore the story behind their work
To round things off, each edition concludes with an article from another publication that has caught the attention of the eLife Magazine team. These often highlight pressing issues in science and academia, or tell an engaging story the team thinks readers will enjoy.
Take a look at past issues
- How baby bats learn to communicate and new markers for cancer (June 3, 2025)
- Reproducibility in Brazil and alcohol’s effect on the teenage brain (May 20, 2025)
- Tuning in to friendly voices and deciding who deserves our help (May 6, 2025)
- Gender bias in science and testing an influential evolutionary theory (April 22, 2025)
- Science under threat in the United States (April 8, 2025)
- Transmissible tumors and the best lifestyle changes to combat aging (March 24, 2025)
- Healing nerves and knotted RNA (March 11, 2025)
- The thrill of the chase, and what keeps the body clock ticking (February 25, 2025)
- Miniature eyes and worms of the right size (February 11, 2025)
- Bacterial matchmakers, the evolution of influenza and how to improve bone healing in old age (January 28, 2025)
- The first vertebrates to fly, communication between gerbils, and baboon poop (January 14, 2025)
- Guardians of the airways, how the gut microbiome impacts protein uptake, and growing brains in a dish (December 10, 2024)
- Predicting resistance in cancer treatment, and challenging a long-held theory in neuroscience (November 26, 2024)
- How evolution affects age-related genes, cooperating marmosets, and navigating neurodiversity in India (November 12, 2024)
- How ketogenic diets impact the brain, the evolution of sperm, and working as a scientist in Morocco (October 19, 2024)
- An alternative to opioids, predicting flu, and why basic science is so valuable to research (October 15, 2024)
