Spain’s flash floods reveal a desperate need for improved mitigation efforts
Nature, Published online: 26 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03825-0 In the wake of one of Europe’s biggest natural disasters in 50 years,
Squid-inspired pills squirt drugs straight into your gut
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This billion-dollar firm plans to build giant quantum computers from light. Can it succeed?
Nature, Published online: 26 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03827-y PsiQuantum has ambitious goals to build a useful quantum machine by late 2027
Shifting sands threaten flood-mitigation measures
Nature, Published online: 26 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03773-9 Climate change and urbanization are exacerbating the effects of flooding. A close look
Affirmative action slow to take hold in Brazil’s graduate science education
Gabryele Moreira in front of Brazil’s first nuclear reactor. She was the only Black student in her nuclear-technology master’s programme
The cells that help the immune system fight lung cancer
Specialized cells help to create a nurturing environment in which tumour-fighting immune cells can thrive and work to eliminate lung
I defend the planet from asteroid collisions
“There are hundreds of millions of asteroids in the Solar System, the majority of which are in the main belt
Is COP29 climate deal a historic breakthrough or let-down? Researchers react
Activists protest during at the COP29 climate meeting in Baku.Credit: Dominika Zarzycka/SOPA via ZUMA/Alamy A last-minute deal that rescued the
Forty years of crazy crystals
Nature, Published online: 25 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03772-w In 1984, scientists made a crystalline alloy that had a seemingly impossible arrangement
life scientists react to Trump’s election victory
Donald Trump will take office on 20 January 2025.Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty The re-election of Donald Trump as US president raises