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...
Guinea-Bissau will implement a universal birth-dose policy for the Hepatitis B vaccine in 2027.Credit: Enrique Lopez-Tapia/Nature Picture Library/AlamyPublic-health authorities in Guinea-Bissau say that they have suspended a controversial US-funded hepatitis B vaccine study that has raised questions about who has...
When Lola was eight years old, she went through a massive growth spurt and started developing acne. Her mother, Elise, thought Lola was just growing fast because of genes inherited from her father. But when she noticed that Lola had...
Despite having a strong healthcare system, vaccine hesitancy and mixed messages from government have curtailed some immunization efforts.Credit: Carl Court/GettyWhen US officials announced earlier this month that they were shrinking the country’s roster of recommended childhood immunizations, physicians and scientists...
Ribosomes, pictured here, synthesize proteins by translating messenger RNA (mRNA) into amino acid chains. Credit: Christoph Burgstedt/Science Photo LibraryResearchers have engineered a time capsule for cells, capable of collecting and storing mementos of past activity.The cellular storage units, called TimeVaults,...
