The astronauts on NASA’s Artemis II mission will see more of the Moon’s far side by eye than any human has before.Credit: NASA/JPLIf all goes to plan, as soon as tomorrow, NASA will launch four people on a journey around...
After having their first child, women are 29% less likely to be employed at a university.Credit: miljko/GettyBecoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s, lowering their chances of getting university jobs, tenure...
Embon, L. et al. Imaging of super-fast dynamics and flow instabilities of superconducting vortices. Nat. Commun. 8, 85 (2017).Article ADS CAS PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Sachkou, Y. P. et al. Coherent vortex dynamics in a strongly interacting superfluid on...
Ando Rabearisoa worked with local fishers to establish locally managed marine conservation areas that protect fisheries and local incomes in Madagascar. Credit: Johnson RakotoniainaThree years into an ecological economics PhD in France, Ando Rabearisoa made a decision that would change...
Gerd Faltings has won the 2026 Abel Prize for his work on proving that Diophantine equations can have a finite set of solutions.Credit: Peter Badge/Typos1/The Abel PrizeGerd Faltings, a number theorist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn,...
Many chronic diseases unfold slowly as continuous biological processes, yet they are typically detected through brief clinical snapshots — at annual visits to a physician or from isolated laboratory tests, for instance. Insulin resistance, a condition in which the body...
Canada’s universities are competing aggressively for funding attached to ‘unicorn’ faculty positions. These rare, prestigious posts are backed by Can$1 billion (US$734 million) in federal investment to attract 100 researchers working on global challenges over the next 12 years. The...
Nature, Published online: 10 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00765-9Ancient DNA and other clues from feathers found in modern Peru hint that the ancient Ychsma culture imported birds from the distant Amazon. Source link...
The past three years have been the warmest recorded on Earth.Credit: Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times via GettyThe rate of global warming has surged since 2015 and is now nearly double what it was in the 1970s, according to a study1...
Conventional diamond, called cubic diamond, is known as the hardest substance in the world. But researchers think hexagonal diamond could be harder.Credit: Mats Silvan/GettyDiamond is famously known as the hardest mineral on Earth. But researchers have been pursuing an unusual...
