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nature
Daily briefing: Medicine Nobel Prize for mRNA research
Biochemist Katalin Karikó and immunologist Drew Weissman have won the Nobel Prize for discoveries that enabled the development of mRNA COVID...
nature.com
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nature
A startup wants to mine the moon for helium
Helium-3 is needed for nuclear reactors, quantum computers, and more. A startup company wants to establish mining operations on the moon to extract a rare...
popsci.com
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nature
‘London Underground’ mosquito has surprisingly ancient origins
Once thought to have evolved inside the Tube network, a tunnel-dwelling mosquito might actually have emerged thousands of years ago in Egypt. Chris...
nature.com
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nature
The climate-crusading lawyer who sued Switzerland over global warming — and won
Cordelia Bähr is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024. Eight years of legal fighting came down to this...
nature.com
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innovation / nature / science / space / technology
Scientists break down cheap plastic using the air — and turn it into something far more valuable
Scientists developed a new method for breaking down one of the most common plastics to a byproduct that can be upcycled into more valuable...
livescience.com
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nature
Daily briefing: Box jellies learn from experience — despite not having a brain
Jellyfish have demonstrated that you don’t need a centralized nervous system to learn by association. Plus, scientists under attack in the United...
nature.com
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nature
Amazing footage shows Dubai's artificial rain used to combat hot weather
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is using artificial rain to give Dubai the perfect climate. The tech responsible is allowing authorities to do...
supercarblondie.com
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nature
AI & robotics briefing: How AI images and videos could change science
The release of OpenAI’s sophisticated video-generating tool Sora has been met with a mix of trepidation and excitement. Plus, researchers have laid...
nature.com
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nature
Daily briefing: It’s not the fasting, it’s the eating
Fasting’s regenerative powers kick in when the feasting starts. Plus, future plans for detecting gravitational waves and an energy-rating scheme for...
nature.com
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nature
Smoking scars the immune system for years after quitting
A cigarette habit and previous infection with a common virus both have important effects on the immune system. Heidi Ledford The impacts of cigarette...
nature.com
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nature
Colombia begins sterilizing its invasive hippos: what scientists think
Environment ministry launches programme that also includes exporting and euthanizing the animals, which threaten the country’s biodiversity. Luke...
nature.com
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photography / nature
The Final 25 Images of Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award 2024
Animal lovers are being asked to vote for their favorite picture for this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award. The...
petapixel.com
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nature
Daily briefing: Anthony Fauci denies ‘preposterous’ accusations of COVID origins cover-up
Fauci, the face of the US pandemic response, was in the hot-seat at a politically polarized hearing. Plus, the first rock samples collected from the...
nature.com
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nature
The ‘ghost roads’ driving tropical deforestation
Researchers find that a huge number of roads that don’t appear on official maps, and the protein that could determine whether someone is...
nature.com
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nature
AI & robotics briefing: How ill-informed AI use is fuelling a reproducibility crisis
The naive use of AI is driving a deluge of unreliable, useless or wrong research. Plus, behind the hype around Google’s new AI system,...
nature.com
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nature
First US drug approved for a liver disease surging around the world
A therapy called resmetirom improves hallmarks of an obesity-linked condition that can lead to liver failure. Heidi Ledford For the first time , the US...
nature.com
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nature
Mpox is spreading rapidly. Here are the questions researchers are racing to answer
Nature talks to infectious-disease specialists about whether vaccines will curb this outbreak and more. Sara Reardon When the World Health Organization...
nature.com
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nature
Fasting can reduce weight — but also hair growth
The dietary craze of intermittent fasting slows hair regrowth in both humans and mice, experiments show. UBC Physics and Astronomy at the University...
nature.com
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nature
Daily briefing: ‘Phenomenal’ tool sequences DNA without cracking cells open
A powerful microscopy technique can sequence DNA and track proteins inside a cell without breaking it open. Plus, a graphene ‘tongue’ can tell the...
nature.com
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nature
Hurricanes never cross the equator. Here’s why.
Here are four things about hurricanes that you may not know.One: They’re the local name of a global phenomenon. Large tropical storms in...
bigthink.com
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nature
The Taliban ‘took my life’ — scientists who fled takeover speak out
Researchers from Afghanistan who found sanctuary around the world following the Taliban takeover in 2021 are struggling to settle in. Three years...
nature.com
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nature
In a milestone for the critically endangered species, a baby California condor has just hatched in San Diego
A baby California condor has hatched at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, marking a major conservation milestone for the critically endangered...
goodgoodgood.co
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nature
The brain aged more slowly in monkeys given a cheap diabetes drug
Daily dose of the common medication metformin preserved cognition and delayed decline of some tissues. Max Kozlov A low-cost diabetes drug slows ageing...
nature.com
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nature
Diabetes drug slows development of Parkinson’s disease
The drug, which is in the same family as blockbuster weight-loss drugs such as Wegovy, slowed development of symptoms by a small but statistically...
nature.com
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nature
Daily briefing: James Webb Space Telescope hints that something is wrong with cosmology
Observations by JWST suggest that ‘we may need to rethink key features of the origin and development of the Universe’. Plus, Colombia considers...
nature.com
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nature
Scientists make astonishing discovery about a potential grid system found in Earth's plants: 'Our eureka moment'
"We could exactly pinpoint how this is related." A recent study has explored the potential for plants as a source of renewable energy and how...
thecooldown.com
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nature
Daily briefing: Climate change is slowing Earth’s rotation
Melting ice caps are slowing the rotation of the Earth and could delay the next leap second by three years. Plus, why journal editors are...
nature.com
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nature
AI & robotics briefing: AI reveals US climate denial hotspots
Just under 15% of people in the United States deny that climate change is happening, according to an analysis of more than seven million social media...
nature.com
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nature
Is CRISPR safe? Genome editing gets its first FDA scrutiny
Advisers to the US regulatory agency will examine the safety profile of a CRISPR-based treatment for sickle-cell disease. Heidi Ledford A therapy based...
nature.com
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nature
Best age to get married, have a child, buy a home and retire? Here’s what Americans say
Young adults in the United States are reaching family and financial milestones later in life than they were 40 years ago. That begs the question: What...
pewresearch.org
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nature
The new science of menopause: these emerging therapies could change women’s health
Researchers are exploring how to prolong ovarian life and revisiting hormone replacement therapy — a once routine treatment that has fallen out of...
nature.com
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nature
Fidelity bags €620m for real estate climate impact fund
Fidelity International has raised €620 million in capital commitments for its real estate impact fund, following a top-up of €110 million from...
environmental-finance.com
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nature
US scientist cleared of hiding ties to China sues university that fired him
Feng ‘Franklin’ Tao says that the University of Kansas violated its own policies after he was wrongly arrested under the China Initiative. A chemical...
nature.com
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nature / science / space
Ancient creatures found encased in amber in remote forests of Myanmar – and they’ve been hiding a deadly secret
discoverwildlife.com
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nature
Daily briefing: Mysterious lizard fossil revealed to be mostly black paint
What was thought to be a 280-million-year-old fossil of one of the oldest reptiles is mainly a fake. Plus, young apes like to annoy their...
nature.com
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nature
This glowing speck is a freezing exoplanet six time s the size of Jupiter
One of the closest planets outside our Solar System is the most frigid ever to be directly imaged. Davide Castelvecchi Astronomers have photographed a...
nature.com
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nature
Daily briefing: Earth breaches 1.5 °C climate limit for the first time
A grim milestone of climate heating, the public-health legacy of former US president Jimmy Carter and a possible problem with tennis balls. Earth...
nature.com
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nature
Daily briefing: NASA finds secret ice base in Greenland
We discover a Cold War-era military base beneath the Greenland ice sheet and meet the billion-dollar company building giant quantum computers using...
nature.com
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nature
Daily briefing: July 2023 was the hottest month in recorded history
This year could be the warmest on record — and next year is likely to be even hotter. Plus, Russia’s lander has crashed on the...
nature.com
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nature
Gigantic oddball aurora seen from Earth for the first time
A camera captured the vast, diffuse glow produced after the solar wind dropped to a whisper. Alexandra Witze Alexandra Witze writes for Nature from...
nature.com
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nature
First biolab in South America for studying world’s deadliest viruses is set to open
Construction is under way for the maximum-security Brazilian facility, which will face cost and regulatory hurdles. Université de Montréal’s Faculty...
nature.com
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nature
Hawaii wildfires: did scientists expect Maui to burn?
Wildfires are not new to Hawaii but they are becoming increasingly devastating. More traditional land use and better data dissemination could help to...
nature.com
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nature
The ‘PhD influencers’ logging lab life on TikTok and Instagram
Graduate students are building big followings, making money and overturning science stereotypes by posting on social media. In January 2023, Lindsay...
nature.com
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health / science / nature / space
Woman Gets Elective Full-Body MRI Scan, Finds Something Disturbing
futurism.com
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nature
Ancient-human fossils sent to space: scientists slam ‘publicity stunt’
The decision to send hominin bones on a commercial spaceflight has raised eyebrows among human-evolution researchers. Ewen Callaway On a bright Friday...
nature.com
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nature
Sea turtles make huge comeback, breaking 42-year nest record in Florida
A record amount of loggerhead nests on Anna Maria Island mark a turning point for the threatened species....
goodgoodgood.co
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nature
Why queasiness kills hunger: brain circuit identified
Feelings of hunger, nausea and fullness seem to be governed by separate brain circuits, finds a study in mice. registration number:...
nature.com
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nature
Daily briefing: We age in spurts at 44 and 60 years old
Biological markers of ageing show sudden shifts in our 40s and 60s. Plus, the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs came from beyond Jupiter and a...
nature.com
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nature
Dreams of new physics fade with latest muon magnetism result
Precision test of particle’s magnetism confirms earlier shocking findings — but theory might not need a rethink after all. Access Nature and 54 other...
nature.com
- 30+ days ago
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nature
Eat less meat: will the first global climate deal on food work?
A declaration on reducing the eye-watering emissions from food production is a start, say researchers — but it sidesteps contentious issues in the...
nature.com
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