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Japan is beginning to recognize that the status and treatment of women researchers must change — but it has yet to take decisive action to address the problem.
When Deep Impact's washing-machine-sized probe slammed into comet Tempel 1 on 4 July, teams of astronomers watched using telescopes in space and around the world. Nature investigates what the images tell us so far about the comet's composition and history.
An ambitious international project to unite the planet's Earth-observing systems is under way. But getting everyone on board is no easy task, says Naomi Lubick.
After a low-key existence for more than 50 years, Germany's Lindau meetings have opened their doors to the world. Alison Abbott joined 44 Nobel laureates as they mingled with young scientists.
In fisheries across the world, fish stocks are declining fast. Future preservation and management of the ocean's resources will require a transformation of our relationship with the seas, argues John Marra.
The discovery of microRNAs has revolutionized many areas of biology. The latest news is that these RNAs seem to regulate the crucial balance between growth and specialization of cardiac cells.
A further discovery of a planet in a binary star system — this time close in — could prove a problem for accepted theories of planetary formation. The implication is that there are more planets out there than we thought.
An analysis of genetic data sets from primates and birds provides firm evidence that molecular evolution is faster on shorter than on longer timescales. The estimated times of various evolutionary events require a rethink.
Ancient jumping DNA found napping in fish has been revived and is being used to identify cancer genes in mice. But the benefits of this aptly named ‘Sleeping Beauty’ system could reach far beyond cancer.
In an unprecedented feat of computation, particle theorists made the most precise prediction yet of the mass of the ‘charm–bottom’ particle. Days later, experimentalists dramatically confirmed that prediction.
Acetylene is a gas with many industrial applications. A highly efficient method to separate it from its close relation, carbon dioxide, is a promising route for purifying and storing ‘strategic’ gases in general.
Infection of mosquitoes by a particular bacterium has a fiendishly complicated influence on the success or failure of mosquito breeding. A window now opens on the molecular basis of this ‘cytoplasmic incompatibility’.
