SpaceX’s Starship rocket is the most powerful launch vehicle ever built.Credit: Joe Marino/UPI/Shutterstock The huge explosions that destroyed SpaceX’s Starship mega-rocket last year also blew one of the biggest ‘holes’ ever detected in the ionosphere, a layer of thin air...
A physiotherapist assists a woman who has experienced a traumatic brain injury with rehabilitation exercises. Credit: Amelie-Benoist/BSIP/Science Photo Library It’s the middle of the night. A young mother makes her way into her crying infant’s bedroom. Her toddler is fast...
On 5 March 2024, the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) — the body responsible for defining units of geological time — announced it was rejecting a proposal to formalize the Anthropocene as a geological epoch that represents an interval of...
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 23 August 2024 An analysis of ancient genomes reveals an explosive geographical and demographic spread of modern domestic horses about 4,200 years ago. The findings counter the idea that horses accompanied and mobilized the mass migration of humans...
Citations for cash: researchers have identified services where scholars can buy citations to their papers in bulk.Credit: Vergani_Fotografia/Getty Research-integrity watchers are concerned about the growing ways in which scientists can fake or manipulate the citation counts of their studies. In...
Everybody tells you it takes time to adjust to the aliens’ way of life, but you don’t really understand what that means, what that feels like, until you live among them, until you befriend one of them. Ambula tardus are...
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 14 August 2024 How the brain controls complex movements has been a mystery. Advances in artificial intelligence now make it possible to simulate this process in virtual animals. Comparing activations in artificial control networks with brain activity in...
Three years after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, some five million people have left the country, including many of the country’s scientists. Nature spoke to a handful of these refugee researchers and discovered that while most consider themselves lucky,...
For just a few more days, a window remains open for governments around the world to make their words matter. They have the chance to weigh in on deliberations of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), as it formulates a...
Marie Curie’s research straddled many decades and involved periods of rest and reflection in the French countryside.Credit: H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Sara, a university professor, describes a typical working day for her as including a barrage of “back-and-forth e-mails, Slack, last-minute...
