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    The shape-shifting blobs that shook up cell biology

    More than a decade ago, scientists started finding peculiar droplets inside cells. Now researchers are trying to work out how these ubiquitous beads form and what they do.

    news feature | 02 Nov 2022
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    Flies can move their rigid, omnidirectional eyes – a little

    The mysterious muscles that move flies’ retinas, and calls for militaries to report their climate emissions.

    nature podcast | 02 Nov 2022
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    The Middle East is going green — while supplying oil to others

    Arab governments are ramping up their green ambitions ahead of the COP27 climate summit, but show few signs of reining in fossil-fuel exports.

    news | 27 Oct 2022
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    Cancer drugs are closing in on some of the deadliest mutations

    The protein KRAS, mutated in many cancers, was deemed ‘undruggable’. Now scientists are hoping to save lives with a batch of new compounds that target it.

    news feature | 25 Oct 2022

• • Gender quotas and no-fishing zones

    NEWS ROUND-UP | 02 NOV 2022

  • COVID vaccine hoarding might have cost more than a million lives

    NEWS | 02 NOV 2022

  • COVID variants to watch, and more — this week’s best science graphics

    NEWS | 01 NOV 2022

  • US Supreme Court poised to ban affirmative action in university admissions

    NEWS EXPLAINER | 28 OCT 2022