Industrial plants in Sichuan, China, where population changes are expected to lead to higher emissions of heat-trapping gases. Credit: Arnold Drapkin/ZUMA Press/Alamy
Climate change
Research Highlights
Selections from the scientific literature by Nature's news team
- Volume 553
- Issue 7687
An old harbour in the Comoros Islands, whose people have a diverse genetic heritage. Credit: Michael Runkel/imageBROKER/REX/Shutterstock
Hair follicles bud from a round mass of skin tissue created in a lab dish. Credit: Jiyoon Lee and Karl R. Koehler
Stem cells
A hair-raising result from stem cells
Stars are born at a great rate in this section of the Tarantula Nebula. Credit: ESO/R. Fosbury (ST-ECF)
Astronomy and astrophysics
Big baby stars burst into life in the Tarantula Nebula
Composite images of 16 people who either had been injected with a bacterial molecule that spurs an immune response (‘sick’, left) or were healthy (right). Credit: Audrey Henderson/J. Axelsson et al./Proc. R. Soc. B
Human behaviour
Illness is written all over your face
A male peacock spider (Maratus robinsoni) exhibits the iridescent scales that he flashes at females during courtship. B.-K. Hsiung et al./Nat. Commun./CC BY 4.0
Optics and photonics
How peacock spiders shimmer and shine with rainbows
A lizard previously unknown to science fills a predator’s belly. Credit: Danny S./CC BY-SA 4.0
Palaeontology
Dinosaur’s last meal is a first for science
Medical research
A lethal autoimmune disease succumbs to stem cells
Shark fins for sale in the Hong Kong seafood market, a global centre for the controversial trade. Credit: Stan Shea/Bloom Association, Hong Kong
Conservation biology
