China–US research collaborations are in decline — this is bad news for everyone
Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology in the US and Tianjin University in China collaborated to create the world’s first
The poetry hidden in PhD thesis acknowledgements
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Hundreds of racist plant names will change after historic vote by botanists
From 2026, plants such as Erythrina caffra will instead be known as Erythrina affra.Credit: Orazio Puccio/Alamy For the first time,
Even with no drug or vaccine, eradication of Guinea worm is in sight
Boys in South Sudan use ‘pipe filters’ to consume water without ingesting Guinea worm larvae.Credit: L. Gubb/The Carter Center Lire
NASA cancels $450-million mission to drill for ice on the Moon — surprising researchers
The completed Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) sits in a cleanroom at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.Credit:
Long COVID lung damage linked to immune system response
A cell (red) infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (blue).Credit: NIAID/National Institutes of Health/Science Photo Library A signalling molecule that helps
What is it like to attend a predatory conference?
By the time she arrived in the United Kingdom from Chile in March 2024, Pía Loren had already been to
When you should throw away expired reagents
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AI & robotics briefing: What is AI, really?
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The ‘PhD influencers’ logging lab life on TikTok and Instagram
In January 2023, Lindsay Ejoh posted a TikTok video of her work dissecting a frozen mouse brain. In it, the