NATURE

I scale these vast trees to gather data on the effects of climate change

“Climbing very tall trees is hard. You can really feel the stretch in the rope, especially when you’re ascending. You…

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CERN to eject Russian scientists

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the untold story of an unlikely friendship

Einstein received an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford, UK, in 1931.Credit: Ullstein Bild/Getty Extreme politics and wars today…

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In Asia, alternative proteins are the new clean energy

In August, bioengineers, chemists, plant biologists and food scientists based in China and Singapore came together in a closed hybrid…

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Can AI feel distress? Inside a new framework to assess sentience

The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI Jonathan Birch Oxford Univ. Press (2024)Can artificial…

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Scientists are building a giant ‘evidence banks’ to create policies that actually work

Education is one sector that is creating a database that brings together research on how to boost learning.Credit: Martin Bureau/AFP…

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Harassed? Intimidated? Guidebook offers help to scientists under attack

Anthony Fauci, head of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was assigned personal security guards after receiving…

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Thalidomide-like drug staunches bleeding from genetic disease

A repurposed cancer drug eases the frequent nosebleeds and other symptoms of a hereditary disease of the blood vessels1. Access…

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Mathematicians define new class of shape seen throughout nature

Mathematicians have described1 a new class of shape that characterizes forms commonly found in nature — from the chambers in…

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Thick, sticky ‘brain goo’ might drive obesity

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