Economics Nobel awarded for study of inequality
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Black women on the academic tightrope: four scholars weigh in
Institutions and individuals must treat Black women with respect.Credit: Julian Guadalupe/Alamy Black women have long flagged an insidious issue they
five insights from historic reports
A review written by Dorothy Hodgkin (pictured around 1960) is among a trove of reports released by the Royal Society.
‘Neural tourniquet’ controls bleeding with nerve stimulation
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Why are some countries so rich? Economics Nobel awarded for study of inequality
Why are some countries richer than others? The 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Is there life on Jupiter’s moon Europa? NASA launches mission to find hints
Jupiter’s moon Europa is thought to hide a saltwater ocean beneath its icy surface.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill A SpaceX rocket
Planning for life on Mars
“The day this photo was taken, in November 2021, I got the best of presents. One hundred kilograms of material
‘Anonymous’ genetic databases vulnerable to privacy leaks
Links between public genetic data sets could be exploited to reveal people’s private information. Credit: imagedepotpro/Getty A study has raised
Six tips for going public with your lab’s software
When computational neurologists Carsen Stringer and Marius Pachitariu built Cellpose, a software that automatically identifies and outlines cells in microscopy
retraction of high-profile reproducibility study prompts soul-searching
A retracted paper’s backstory illustrates the challenges of the technique called preregistration.Credit: Getty The retraction of a high-profile paper1 that