“In this photograph, I’m installing a chlorophyll fluorometer into a Scots pine tree (Pinus sylvestris) at a forest station in Hyytiälä, Finland, which is 200 kilometres north of the main campus at the University of Helsinki. I’m 20 metres above...
Jingex was feeling their age. Over the past 10 or 15 yahn cycles, they’d grown and grown and grown, until they were no longer spry and youthful: inclined more towards reclining and relaxing than striding out and exploring. It’s what...
Scott Imbrie still remembers the first time that physicians switched on the electrodes sitting on the surface of his brain. He felt a tingling, poking sensation in his hand, like “reaching into an evergreen bush”, he says. “It was like...
More private jets are taking to the skies now than there were four years ago.Credit: Joan Valls/Urbanandsport/NurPhoto via GettyA global analysis of private-jet use shows that the number of aircraft, trips and the distance planes covered have all soared over...
Patriat, P. & Achache, J. India–Eurasia collision chronology has implications for crustal shortening and driving mechanism of plates. Nature 311, 615–621 (1984).Article ADS Google Scholar Cande, S. C. & Patriat, P. The anticorrelated velocities of Africa and India in the...
One: 16 March 2074Donghua Advertising Company is deeply saddened to announce that, owing to company restructuring and resource optimization, Mr Chen Qi, a senior employee at our company, reached the end of his career on 15 March 2074.Mr Chen Qi...
It is common knowledge that the human gut is home to hordes of bacteria, most of which seem essential for good health. But there is another component of the gut microbiome that receives less attention: viruses.Wherever there are bacteria, viruses...
Molecular biologist Natalia Szulc developed the video game DEGRADATOR during her PhD.Credit: Natalia SzulcFrom a young age, video games have sparked my creativity and imagination. But a lack of engaging educational games, especially in my native Polish, fuelled a desire...
Haematopoietic stem cells from donors have been used to treat hundreds of thousands of people with blood cancer and other blood disorders.Credit: SPLEver since the first blood-forming stem cells were successfully transplanted into people with blood cancers more than 50...
A quantum sensor that measures local gravity using free-falling atoms.Credit: Isabella Moore/New York Times/Redux/eyevineQuantum technologies hold great promise for aiding national defence, by sharpening how countries collect data, analyse intelligence, communicate and develop materials and weapons. For instance, quantum sensors...
