Alan Turing Daily briefing: Alan Turing is the new face of the fiftynature.com - Flora Graham Computer scientist will grace the Bank of England’s largest denomination note, drug researchers target the microbiome and China’s plan to halt rogue …
Science Ancient Mongolian nests show that dinosaurs protected their eggsnature.com - Jonathan Lambert The fossils provide the first clear example of group nesting activities in dinosaurs. An exquisitely preserved dinosaur nesting site discovered in the …
Science Greek coroner says biologist found dead during conference was suffocatednature.com - Alison Abbott Scientists have paid tribute to Suzanne Eaton, whose body was discovered in a cave in Crete last week. A coroner investigating the death of a …
Science Daily briefing: Solar panel skin helps buildings keep their coolnature.com - Flora Graham Movable solar panels could substantially improve buildings’ energy efficiency, AI poker bot is first to beat the pros at six-player Texas hold’em and …
Montreal Protocol China plans CFC-monitoring network to investigate rogue emissionsnature.com - David Cyranoski The move follows a recent study that attributed a spike in an ozone-depleting chemical to two Chinese provinces. When atmospheric models traced a …
Science AI poker bot is first to beat professionals at multiplayer gamenature.com - Douglas Heaven Triumph over five human opponents at Texas hold’em brings bots closer to solving complicated real-world problems. Machines have raised the stakes once …
Hawaii Controversial mega-telescope set to begin construction in Hawaiinature.com - Alexandra Witze The Thirty Meter Telescope project has faced years of legal challenges over planned Mauna Kea site. Construction of the controversial Thirty Meter …
Science Whale hunt, climate lawsuits and chaos-theory pioneernature.com Japan restarts commercial whale hunts After a 30-year break, Japan restarted its commercial whaling programme on 1 July, the day after withdrawing …
Moon Podcast: The Moon, past, present, and futurenature.com Nick Howe talks to reporter Alex Witze about the history and future of Moon exploration. Instead of a regular edition of the Nature Podcast, this week …
Moon These young scientists will shape the next 50 years of Moon researchnature.com - Alexandra Witze Half a century after Apollo, Nature profiles five researchers who are shaking up lunar exploration. Megha Bhatt grew up gazing at the Moon riding …
Science Japanese spacecraft to probe asteroid’s guts for first timenature.com - Davide Castelvecchi Hayabusa2 prepares to collect material from inside asteroid Ryugu in finale manoeuvre. Japan’s Hayabusa2 asteroid mission is ready for the last major …
Science Biologist found dead during Crete conferencenature.com - Alison Abbott Max Planck researcher Suzanne Eaton was discovered in a cave by police after a five-day search. Developmental biologist Suzanne Eaton, a group leader …
Science Scandal-weary Swedish government takes over research-fraud investigationsnature.com - Holly Else The Research Misconduct Board is one of the first national agencies tasked with investigating serious research misconduct. Bruised by a string of …
Science Climate activists turn to lawsuits to force action on global warmingnature.com - Nisha Gaind Citizens and organizations have filed more than 1,300 cases worldwide since 1990. Citizens and organizations have filed more than 1,300 lawsuits …
Science Self-destructing mosquitoes and sterilized rodents: the promise of gene drivesnature.com - Megan Scudellari Altering the genomes of entire animal populations could help to defeat disease and control pests, but researchers worry about the consequences of …
Parrots Daily briefing: Why parrots are the only other animals that dancenature.com - Flora Graham An excuse to watch some great videos of Snowball the dancing cockatoo, the promise of gene drives and one scientist’s story of turning her back on …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoScience Daily briefing: Homo sapiens fossil is the oldest ever found outside Africanature.com - Flora Graham Skull found in Greece might rewrite history of humans in Europe, Hayabusa2 probes an asteroid’s interior for the first time and rewatching the Apollo …
Moon Can NASA really return people to the Moon by 2024?nature.com - Alexandra Witze Donald Trump wants US astronauts back on the Moon. But his ambitious plan faces formidable political, financial and technical challenges. Five decades …
Science Daily briefing: ‘Ploonets’ are moons that escape their planets and start to orbit their starsnature.com - Flora Graham Ploonets could explain some of the mysteries already observed in exoplanet systems, the Apollo Moon landing was nearly a joint US–Soviet mission and …
Science Hungarian government takes control of research institutes despite outcrynature.com - Alison Abbott But the international scientific community continues to protest against the takeover, saying it will harm science. After months of struggle between …
Science Daily briefing: Farewell authors, hello contributorsnature.com - Flora Graham How to give programmers, data analysts and statisticians their due, what NASA will have to do to get to the Moon by 2024 and a decision-analysis tool …
Science Daily briefing: Trees could sink two-thirds of human carbon emissionsnature.com - Flora Graham Restore treeless land to remove 200 billion tonnes of carbon, how scientists detected the softest possible sound and the most spectacular science …
Science Suns, sloths and spy satellites — June’s best science imagesnature.com - Matthew Warren The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team. Preserved prey. The European beewolf (Philanthuis triangulum), is a solitary wasp …
Science Daily briefing: Deafness gene might be next target in CRISPR babiesnature.com - Flora Graham Biologist says he will create CRISPR babies for five deaf couples who want children who can hear. Plus: Almost every solid might be topological and …
Science Asteroid impact, Titan mission and Soviet emissionsnature.com NASA drone to soar across Titan NASA will send a dual-quadcopter drone to hop across the surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, the agency …
Science NASA changes how it divvies up telescope time to reduce gender biasnature.com - Alexandra Witze The switch to double-blind peer review will affect roughly 650 scientists working on projects worth an estimated US$55 million. NASA has changed the …
Materials Science Podcast: Machine learning in materials science, and sand’s sustainabilitynature.com Listen to the latest from the world of science, with Benjamin Thompson and Nick Howe. A word-association algorithm is reading millions of abstracts to …
Science Strange topological materials are popping up everywhere physicists looknature.com - Davide Castelvecchi ‘Fragile topology’ is the latest addition to a group of quantum phenomena that give materials exotic — and exciting — properties. The mathematics …
Science Daily briefing: UK university will ban lecturesnature.com - Flora Graham “Soul-destroying” for lecturers and not great for learning anyway. Plus: climate change made the record-breaking heatwave in Europe at least five …
