Novelty is often espoused as a virtue in science. But what does it mean, and how valuable is it, really? A manuscript written in gobbledegook might be considered novel, despite being useless. And studies that try to replicate previous work...
In early May, European politicians and university leaders gathered in Paris at Sorbonne University to deliver a message to US researchers affected by cuts made by the administration of US President Donald Trump: move here instead.Ursula von der Leyen, the...
In 2019, I met the health minister of a populous nation. After spending 30 minutes discussing the country’s dementia statistics, the minister politely stopped me mid-sentence — and asked whether I could define dementia. They had never heard the term before.This...
Nature, Published online: 06 June 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01800-xAndrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks. Source link...
Nature, Published online: 04 June 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01456-7In mice, a lack of maternal iron impairs an iron-dependent enzyme that activates the male sex-determining gene, causing some XY embryos to develop ovaries. Source link...
Diseases caused by HIV and drug-resistant tuberculosis could surge globally as a result of research-grant cuts made by the US National Institutes of Health. Credit: Jekesai Njikizana/AFP via Getty Amita Gupta has spent more than a decade planning and running...
The miniature curved compound eye, called CurvACE, was inspired by the eyes of insects.Credit: Alain Herzog, EPFLElectrical engineer Young Min Song remembers when his colleague at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea asked him why the...
Lis Gallant’s ADHD helps her to switch her attention rapidly to manage field site safety and data collection under intense volcanic conditions.Credit: Hawaiian Volcano Observatory/USGSFor volcanologist Lis Gallant, her first clue that she might have attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) came...
A storm-chasing campaign will help scientists to understand why some storms yield large, damaging hailstones and others generate no hail at all. Credit: Benjamin Cremel/AFP/GettyHail regularly pulverizes crops and smashes up homes around the world — but it remains a...
The National Science Foundation has suspended its plans to set a blanket rate for all overhead-cost funding on research grants.Credit: B Christopher/AlamyThe US National Science Foundation (NSF) has paused a policy that threatened to cost universities hundreds of millions of...
