Karl Thompson is a microbiologist at Howard University in Washington DC and the director of its graduate programme for biomedical sciences.Credit: Justin D. Knight/Howard UniversityOne year ago this month, Howard University in Washington DC landed the coveted title of an...
Ukrainian soldiers test drones in Donetsk, Febuary 2025.Credit: Serhii Mykhalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via GettyMilitary budgets are growing, especially in larger economies. In 2024, global military spending totalled U$2.7 trillion1, a 9.4% increase in real terms over the previous year, according...
Credit: Olga Yastremska/Alamy Calling nanoscientists: your field needs you to try to replicate a landmark finding that quantum dots can act as biosensors inside living cells. As part of the first large-scale effort in the physical sciences to tackle the...
AI slop is flooding computer science journals and conferences.Credit: Quality Stock/AlamyFifty-four seconds. That’s how long it took Raphael Wimmer to write up an experiment that he did not actually perform, using a new artificial-intelligence tool called Prism, released by OpenAI...
The Bell Beaker culture, named after a type of ceramic vessel, arose in Europe from around 2800 BC.Credit: Lanmas/AlamyA western European ‘water world’ was a holdout for hunter-gatherers for thousands of years.Ancient inhabitants of the Rhine–Meuse river delta — wetland,...
Money could become harder to come by for European scientists if the overall European Research Council pot does not dramatically increase.Credit: Ulrich Baumgarten via Getty The number of US-based researchers applying to prestigious grants that would see them relocate to...
Pandora’s launch marks a first for many of the scientists and engineers involved in the mission.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterOn the morning of 11 January, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California...
A new study shows most elite researchers in China remained in the country over the course of their careers.Credit: An Yuan/China News Service/VCG/GettyDeng Xiaoping’s 1979 visit to the United States heralded a new era of economic and scientific exchange between...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKIMGrFPnWAHuman hands are incredibly dexterous tools — but they have their limits. They are asymmetric, they have only a single thumb and, fundamentally, they’re connected to our arms.Read the paper: A detachable crawling robotic hand But none of that poses...
Which animals came first? For more than a century, most evidence suggested that sponges, immobile filter-feeders that lack muscles, neurons and other specialized tissues, were the first animal lineages to emerge. Then, in 2008, a genomic study pointed to a...
