Mega-magnet breaks field record — but it comes with a cost
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How job-seeking scientists should walk the line between high-calibre and humble
Nature’s 2024 hiring in science survey This article is the second in a short series discussing the results of Nature
Mexican forest ‘relocated’ in attempt to save iconic monarch butterflies
Researchers in central Mexico have planted a forest of firs. Now they’re hoping the imperiled Eastern monarch butterflies will come.
How I created a film festival to explore climate communication
On a late July afternoon in Bloomington, Indiana, I stood on stage in a darkened theatre, looking over a sea
How does the brain react to birth control? A researcher scanned herself 75 times to find out
Researchers are cataloguing the effects of birth control on the brain. Credit: Isabel Pavia/Getty Chicago, Illinois Hold the morning coffee
Report issues ‘sobering reality check’ for world’s oceans
As global leaders head to the U.N. Biodiversity Conference next week, a new report issued a stark warning: The world
Why you need so many COVID boosters
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The speed of smell is faster than expected
Get a whiff of this: people can distinguish between two distinct smells presented to them less than one-tenth of a
The huge protein database that spawned AlphaFold and biology’s AI revolution
Crystallographer Helen Berman co-founded the Protein Data Bank in the 1960s. Credit: Rutgers University The 2024 Nobels were all about
China builds record-breaking magnet — but it comes with a cost
The resistive magnet at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science.Credit: CHMFL/Handout via Xinhua/Alamy China is now home to the world’s