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Young people must pursue climate fight with politicians, not through the courts, says ruling. Plus, a call to create contagious climate optimism and US research struggles for clarity over embryo-like structures.
300 million years of Earth’s history in breathtaking detail, the extent of “spooky action at a distance” might be unknowable and how economic ideas untethered by evidence manage to influence policy — and just keep coming back.
‘Asgard archaea’ isolated from deep-sea sediment and painstakingly grown over 12 years. Plus: a damning survey of scientific careers and a proposal for a Human Screenome Project.
The last stand of wild Wollemia nobilis trees was protected by a secret firefighting mission. Plus: human body temperature is dropping and the anti-CRISPR proteins that put the brakes on gene editing.
Meteor material is almost 3 billion years older than our Sun. Plus: animal-cloning researcher sentenced to 12 years in prison for embezzling research funding and three document-sharing tools for scientists.
They come from outer space, we know that. Plus: the visible fingerprint of climate change on individual days of weather and William Gibson’s mind-bending new novel.
Independent commission tackles plagiarism and self-plagiarism. Plus: SpaceX tests a black satellite in response to fears it is ruining astronomy and scientists explore the parts of Notre-Dame exposed by fire.
Don’t wait to save insects — these steps benefit society and biodiversity, too. Plus: a banner year for medical applications of CRISPR gene editing and planning a week without meetings.
What’s behind the fading of one of the sky’s brightest stars? Plus: cooling materials send heat into space and don’t be squeamish about drinking recycled wastewater.
Scientists in Belgium, Japan and the United States are submitting when the rest of us are kipping. Plus: Finally! A solution (of sorts) to the three-body problem, and the conference that brings all the fun of science Twitter into the real world.
Stunning images from the year in science, the world’s largest neutrino detector is a go and the US government is to fund gun-violence research for the first time in more than 20 years.
Prominent stem-cell researcher Masoud Soleimani returns to Iran and history graduate student Xiyue Wang goes home to the United States. Plus: the first mission designed to study exoplanets and psychology’s embattled field of social priming.
Object contains DNA instructions to make a copy of itself, ‘big history’ puts an end to the Axial Age and a gene-based hack detangles correlation from causation in epidemiology.