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Field observations of Ambula tardus on Planet IN-409
Everybody tells you it takes time to adjust to the aliens’ way of life, but you don’t really understand what that means, what that feels
Black holes regulate cool gas accretion in massive galaxies
Cosmology We adopted a Chabrier initial mass function (IMF)31 to estimate star formation rate and assumed cosmological parameters of H0 = 70 km s−1 Mpc−1, ΩM = 0.3, and ΩΛ = 0.7. Sample
The Taliban ‘took my life’ — scientists who fled takeover speak out
Three years after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, some five million people have left the country, including many of the country’s scientists. Nature spoke
Deepest-ever samples of rock from Earth’s mantle unveiled
A sample of mantle rock viewed under a microscope.Credit: Johan Lissenberg A record-breaking expedition to drill into rocks at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean
‘Fire clouds’ from super-hot wildfires are on the rise as Earth warms
A suspected arson on 24 July ignited the Park Fire in California, which had exploded to more than 140,000 hectares less than three days later.Credit:
biologist who shaped genetic engineering and fought discrimination
Credit: National Institutes of Health The US molecular biologist Maxine Singer made discoveries about the role of enzymes in assembling genetic material. Work in the
Rhapsodies in green: the poetry of plant biology
Nature, Published online: 30 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02442-1 Poems that bring plant biology to life, and remembering the achievements of the physicist Patrick Blackett, in our
Meet the retired scientists who collaborate with younger colleagues
Julie Gould 00:09 Hello and welcome to Working Scientist, a Nature Careers podcast. I’m Julie Gould. This is the sixth and final episode of the
Carbon pricing reduces emissions
Nature, Published online: 24 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02293-w A meta-analysis of 21 carbon-pricing schemes suggests that the strategy reduces greenhouse-gas emissions. Deciding how high to set
the hidden link between star-forming molecular clouds
The discovery that three star-forming clouds in our cosmic neighbourhood form a single C-shaped structure offers insights into how such clouds develop1. Access options Access
