a staggering 4.4 billion people lack safe drinking water, study finds
People gather around a roadside pipeline to collect drinking water in Bangladesh.Credit: Mamunur Rashid/NurPhoto/Getty Approximately 4.4 billion people drink unsafe
For climate-fighting farms, squeeze in some trees: study
Around the world, planting crops and grazing livestock often means cutting down trees — with disastrous impacts on the climate.
How I’m looking to medicine’s past to heal hurt and support peace in the Middle East
This month, I am in Amman, Jordan, teaching on the annual Palestine Social Medicine Course. This course, now in its
How to win funding to talk about your science
Kizzmekia Corbett-Helaire explained her research on vaccines to US President Joe Biden during his visit to the National Institutes of
Jupiter mission will attempt first-ever fly-by that harnesses Earth and Moon’s gravity
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer spacecraft approaching Earth (artist’s impression).Credit: ESA/Lightcurve Films/R. Andres Next week, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer
The Taliban said women could study — three years on they still can’t
Girls over the age of 12 and women in Afghanistan are unlikely to be allowed back to schools and universities
One-quarter of unresponsive people with brain injuries are conscious
Blood (red; artificially coloured) pools in the brain of a person who has had a stroke, a common cause of
Recognition and control of neutrophil extracellular trap formation by MICL
Mice Micl−/− and C57BL/6J mice were bred and maintained under specific pathogen-free (SPF) conditions at the University of Aberdeen, University
How to design a protein that can be switched on and off
Nature, Published online: 14 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02242-7 Proteins have been designed that assemble in different ways depending on whether an
A hot-emitter transistor based on stimulated emission of heated carriers
Preparation of the substrate A p-type (100) Ge substrate with a resistivity of 1–10 Ω cm was cleaned by hydrofluoric acid (40 wt%)