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...
Bottlenose dolphins’ whistles will be analysed using artificial intelligence.Credit: Georgette Douwma/Nature Picture LibraryWill artificial intelligence (AI) finally allow us to talk to animals? To spur progress towards that dream, a contest is offering a US$500,000 cash prize for AI use...
AnimalsMale and female adult mice, aged between 2 and 7 months old, from the following mouse lines were used: C57BL/6 J wild-type (Charles River), Drd1-Cre (Gensat: EY262), Adora2a-cre (Gensat: KG139), Slc6a3-cre (JAX: 006660), Ai14 (tdTomato, JAX: 007914), Ai35 (Arch-GFP, JAX: 012735)...
Over the past several weeks, hundreds of meeting abstracts have quietly vanished from the websites of research conferences organized by the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in Houston, Texas — a NASA-funded research institution that maintains key archives and information...
Symplocarpus renifolius emits sulfur-containing compounds that make it smell of rotting meat.Credit: Kirsanov Valeriy Vladimirovich/ShutterstockWith a nickname like ‘skunk cabbage’, the infamously stinky flowers of Symplocarpus renifolius are unlikely to grace a bridal bouquet. But for the beetles and flies...
Whether it’s developing artificial-intelligence tools, clean technologies or medical treatments, governments around the world are seeking to leverage their research institutions and workforces to compete strategically with other nations.The strategy behind one of the most successful labs in the worldThrough...
