Science The battle to rebuild centuries of science after an epic infernonature.com - Emiliano Rodríguez Mega Nearly a year after flames consumed Brazil’s National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, researchers are struggling to revive their work and resume their …
Science The plan to mine the world’s research papersnature.com - Priyanka Pulla A giant data store quietly being built in India could free vast swathes of science for computer analysis — but is it legal? Carl Malamud is on a …
The reality behind solar power’s next star materialnature.com - Andy Extance Companies say they are close to commercializing cheap perovskite films that could disrupt solar power — but are they too optimistic? The Henn na hotel …
Does psychology have a conflict-of-interest problem?nature.com - Tom Chivers Some star psychologists don’t disclose in research papers the large sums they earn for talking about their work. Is that a concern? Generation Z has …
The biologist overturning evolutionary doctrinenature.com - Giorgia Guglielmi Cassandra Extavour has transformed understanding of animal development — while championing diversity, and nurturing a side career as a soprano. By the …
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 …
The secret social lives of virusesnature.com - Elie Dolgin Scientists are listening in on the ways viruses communicate and cooperate. Decoding what the microbes are saying could be a boon to human …
CRISPR babies: when will the world be ready?nature.com - Heidi Ledford Efforts to make heritable changes to the human genome are fraught with uncertainty. Here’s what it would take to make the technique safe and …
Move over, DNA: ancient proteins are starting to reveal humanity’s historynature.com - Matthew Warren Proteins dating back more than one million years have been extracted from some fossils, and could help to answer some difficult questions about …
Science Venus is Earth’s evil twin — and space agencies can no longer resist its pullnature.com - Shannon Hall Once a water-rich Eden, the hellish planet could reveal how to find habitable worlds around distant stars. The helicopter fell like a stone. It …
Scientists in Pakistan and Sri Lanka bet their futures on Chinanature.com Sri Lanka gains by having access to China’s ocean research expertise. And CAS gets full access to all the data generated from joint projects, …
How China is redrawing the map of world sciencenature.com One obstacle to environmental due diligence, says Qi Ye, director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy in Beijing, is that institutions …
Indigenous groups look to ancient DNA to bring their ancestors homenature.com - Nicky Phillips Local communities and geneticists are working together to sequence DNA from remains that were taken from their homelands decades ago. Several years …
Facing up to injustice in genome sciencenature.com - Giorgia Guglielmi Researchers from under-represented groups are making genomics more inclusive by working with communities that have been overlooked or abused. Néstor …
Play button Transgender health is finally getting researchers’ attentionnature.com - Sara Reardon The research examines once taboo questions about the impacts of gender transition. Benita Arren wishes that the human body came with instructions. …
This Nigerian doctor might just prevent the next deadly pandemicnature.com - Amy Maxmen As leader of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Chikwe Ihekweazu works to protect the nation — and the world — from devastating …
The CRISPR-baby scandal: what’s next for human gene-editingnature.com - David Cyranoski As concerns surge after a bombshell revelation, here are four questions about this fast-moving field. In the three months since He Jiankui announced …
The mouse in the video gamenature.com - Liam Drew A mouse scurries down a hallway, past walls lined with shifting monochrome stripes and checks. But the hallway isn’t real. It’s part of a simulation …
Why the sexes don’t feel pain the same waynature.com - Amber Dance After decades of assuming that pain processing is equivalent in all sexes, scientists are finding that different biological pathways can produce an …
The nuclear sins of the Soviet Union live on in Kazakhstannature.com - Wudan Yan Decades after weapons testing stopped, researchers are still struggling to decipher the health impacts of radiation exposure around Semipalatinsk. The …
Ocean uproar: saving marine life from a barrage of noisenature.com - Nicola Jones Ship engines, underwater blasts, sonar and oil drilling are filling the seas with sound. Researchers are now trying to pin down the damage humanity’s …
The man behind the internet of animalsnature.com - Andrew Curry Martin Wikelski has spent 17 years getting an antenna into space to track animals around the world. That’s the first step in his plan to …
Colombia: after the violencenature.com Matallana and Carlos Gómez, a psychiatrist at Xavierian, are planning to launch a 10- to 20-year study following more than 2,000 people in Vista …
A reboot for chronic fatigue syndrome researchnature.com - Amy Maxmen Research into this debilitating disease has a rocky past. Now scientists may finally be finding their footing. Name a remedy, and chances are that …
How to build a Moon basenature.com - Elizabeth Gibney Researchers are ramping up plans for living on the Moon. Next year, astronaut Matthias Maurer expects to walk on the surface of the Moon — but without …
The battle for the soul of biodiversitynature.com - Ehsan Masood An ideological clash could undermine a crucial assessment of the world’s disappearing plant and animal life. It’s a hot and humid afternoon in the …
These dusty young stars are changing the rules of planet-buildingnature.com - Rebecca Boyle A stronomers peer inside planetary nurseries for clues about how our Solar System and others came to be. Some 100,000 years ago, when Neanderthals …
Bias detectives: the researchers striving to make algorithms fairnature.com - Rachel Courtland As machine learning infiltrates society, scientists are trying to help ward off injustice. In 2015, a worried father asked Rhema Vaithianathan a …
First sun-dimming experiment will test a way to cool Earthnature.com - Jeff Tollefson Researchers plan to spray sunlight-reflecting particles into the stratosphere, an approach that could ultimately be used to quickly lower the …
