- August 8, 2024
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
Long COVID lung damage linked to immune system response
A cell (red) infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (blue).Credit: NIAID/National Institutes of Health/Science Photo Library A signalling molecule that helps to kick-start inflammation in the
Three-year delay for Indian census frustrates researchers
A census worker records details from women and children in Hyderabad, India during the last census in 2011.Credit: Mahesh Kumar A./AP via Alamy Today, Hauz
What is it like to attend a predatory conference?
By the time she arrived in the United Kingdom from Chile in March 2024, Pía Loren had already been to conferences in Latin America and
