- August 26, 2024
Mysterious Oropouche virus is spreading: what you should know
The Southern house mosquito (Culex quinquefasciatus; artificially coloured) can transmit Oropouche virus to humans, but the main vector is the midge Culicoides paraensis.Credit: Dennis Kunkel
Ancient equine genomes reveal dawn of horse domestication
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 23 August 2024 An analysis of ancient genomes reveals an explosive geographical and demographic spread of modern domestic horses about 4,200 years ago.
Blow that whistle at your own risk
Haematologist and whistle-blower Nancy Olivieri has spent more than three decades fighting for scientific integrity and for her patients.Credit: Carlos Osorio/Toronto Star/Getty Working scientist profiles
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
