Spot the differences. To celebrate its 36th birthday, the Hubble Space Telescope revisited a region of the Trifid Nebula, a ‘stellar nursery’ around 1,500 parsecs (5,000 light years) away. Your browser does not support this video Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Leah...
Women’s growing participation in research is not always matched by high-profile authorship positions.Credit: Pierre Trihan/AFP via GettyIn some ways, women have made incredible gains in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). In 2022, they represented 41% of all active researchers,...
Y-shaped biomolecules called antibodies are scientific workhorse tools that researchers use to bind to and track specific proteins.Credit: Nemes Laszlo/Science Photo LibraryCatalogue entries for more than 100 antibodies sold by the research services and supply company Thermo Fisher Scientific contain...
Stress has widespread effects on the brain.Credit: K H Fung/Science Photo LibraryAcute stress makes it difficult to link memories of past events with fresh information, a study1 suggests. The results help to explain why people struggle to show insight under...
When clinical scientist Grace Hallinan relocated from Ireland to the United States in 2018 for a postdoctoral position, she immediately felt that something was missing.“I moved to the US, and the apartment was just lonely and sad,” recounts Hallinan, who...
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) a public health emergency of international concern on 17 May.Credit: Jospin Mwisha/AFP via GettyScientists are racing to trial experimental treatments and potentially...
A lab at the University of Indiana Bloomington is under scrutiny from the US Department of Agriculture.Credit: Michael Hickey/GettyBiologists at Indiana University (IU) Bloomington have been locked out of their laboratories for more than a week, after the university suddenly...
Research laboratories are weighing up the costs and benefits of paying for artificial-intelligence tools.Credit: J Studios/GettyJames Zou has spent “well over US$100,000” on artificial intelligence in the past year. “These models are very useful for researchers, for coding, for analysis,...
Chantle Edillor 00:08I believe that the creativity, you know, the uniqueness of the perspectives that I had, you know, it allowed me to identify unique opportunities in subjects that no one was thinking about in that way.David Payne 00:24This is...
