Cave-bat fieldwork often looked like a scene from the 1995 film Outbreak.Credit: Warner Bros/AJ Pics/AlamyFor years, I was a bat ecologist, fully immersed in the grind of data collection and publications. My research on cave-bat conservation took me to remote...
James Collins, Andrés Cubillos-Ruiz and Raphaël Gayet co-founded the biotechnology company Florey Biosciences.Credit: Andrés Cubillos-Ruiz’s wife was four months pregnant when she received a course of antibiotics to prevent invasive bacteria from taking up residence in her gums, following a...
Monica Saavedra advises people on how to move from academia into industry.Credit: National Institute of Agricultural BotanyLambda Agri, based in Cambridge, UK, develops advanced materials to convert incident high-energy (ultraviolet, or UV) light into lower-energy (red) light efficiently. The applications...
Adam Levy 00:00 Hello. I’m Adam Levy, and this is Mind Matters: Academia's Mental Health Crisis, a podcast from Nature Careers. In this episode, the toll that harassment can take on mental health. Throughout this series, researchers we’ve spoken with...
Silence Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Paris Until 31 August 2025The Big Bang was spectacularly misnamed, having been “the quietest firework of all time”. Sound waves need matter to propagate through, so the explosion that created it can’t have...
Adam Levy: 00:02 Hello. I’m Adam Levy, and this is Mind Matters: Academia’s Mental Health Crisis, a podcast from Nature Careers. In this episode, we’re discussing burnout. Most all academics share something in common, passion for what they do. But...
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 29 January 2025 Sustainable engraftment of heart muscle cells (cardiomyocytes) can be achieved by implanting patches of engineered heart muscle onto the surface of the heart under immune suppression. Evidence from rhesus macaques and an individual with advanced...
Social-media platform Bluesky has more than 27 million users.Credit: Peter Kováč/AlamySeventy per cent of Nature readers who responded to an online poll are using the social-media platform Bluesky, which works a lot like X (formerly Twitter) and whose popularity has...
Chinese firm DeepSeek debuted a version of its large language model last year.Credit: Koshiro K/AlamyA Chinese-built large language model called DeepSeek-R1 is thrilling scientists as an affordable and open rival to ‘reasoning’ models such as OpenAI’s o1.These models generate responses...
Credit: Cyril Frésillon/CNRS PhotothèqueMartin Karplus was a theoretical chemist who set out to explore the fundamentals of his subject, but always with an eye to the broadest possible applications in the real world. He seized the potential of computers to...
