Dogs might have evolved to read your emotions
Selective breeding may have had the side effect of making dogs receptive to human emotions — and able to mirror
A minimalistic model achieves long-range explainable El Niño forecasts with high accuracy
L’Heureux, M. L. et al. in El Niño Southern Oscillation in a Changing Climate (eds Santoso, A., Cai, W. &
Reverse engineering spinal-cord injury
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 16 July 2024 A compilation of four single-cell and spatial atlases of spinal-cord injury in mice enables researchers
researchers should explore the alternatives
Key differences between the immune responses of humans and mice make mice poor models for treating diseases such as sepsis
botanists will vote on whether to change them
George Hibbert, an eighteenth-century English merchant who profited from the slave trade and fought abolition, lends his name to a
The death forecast: how weather affects human mortality
Nature, Published online: 16 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02230-x A link between the death rate and summer temperatures, and Lord Kelvin’s scientific
Can H5N1 spread through cow sneezes? Experiment offers clues
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Severe turbulence ahead — how scientists can keep air travellers safe in a warming world
Climate change is not just leading to more heatwaves and hurricanes — it’s making the atmosphere more turbulent, too. As
The geneticist who uses science to free parents wrongly convicted of killing their children
Carola Vinuesa helped to overturn the conviction of a mother jailed for killing her children.Credit: Michael Bowles/Francis Crick Institute Working
how a religious festival helps me to monitor snake behaviour
“In this photo, I’m holding a snake known in Italy as a cervone (Elaphe quatuorlineata). It’s one of 189 that