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Unprecedented video of the Sun’s churning surface, huge swarms of locusts are ravaging East Africa and a call to reconsider the ‘business as usual’ baseline for climate change.
US Department of Defense says Lieber hid his lucrative involvement in China’s Thousand Talents programme. Plus: 5G is Nature Electronics’ 2020 technology of the year, and first lab to grow the coronavirus outside China will share it with international researchers.
Foundation will have to tackle high cost of producing treatments for diseases that affect fewer than ten individuals. Plus: Isaac Asimov at 100 and a coronavirus update.
The Namibian astronomy community has a bold plan to take advantage of the country's spectacularly dark, clear skies. Plus, machine-learning researchers talk ethics at NeurIPS and the China coronavirus latest.
In mice, acute stress depletes the stem cells that give the hairs their colour. Plus, the first genomes from ancient West African humans and why the Wuhan virus probably didn’t come from snakes.
Turing’s Princeton degree, Order of the British Empire medal and other personal items have been recovered. Plus: the chemists policing Earth’s atmosphere for rogue pollution, and the Wuhan virus has been seen in the United States.
The good news: the worst ozone-depleting gases are already banned. Plus, top biologists name the technology to watch in 2020 and the alternative theories challenging the Big Bang.
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.