Research Highlights
Selections from the scientific literature by Nature's news team
- Volume 548
- Issue 7668
The Eurasian reed warbler migrates over vast distances, from Europe to sub-Saharan Africa. Pal Hermansen/NPL
The Phoenix lander operated on Mars in 2007 and 2008, hunting for water. NASA/JPL-Caltech/University Arizona/Texas A&M University
Astronomy and astrophysics
Snow falls fast at night on Mars
Researchers used the ATLAS detector, seen here under construction, to spot rare ‘light-by-light’ scattering. Maximilien Brice/CERN
Particle physics
Light seen bouncing off light at high energies for the first time
Fish exposed to food odour (right) started looking for dinner, while controls kept swimming against a current (left). M. S. Savoca et al./Proc. R. Soc. B
Animal behaviour
Fish fooled into thinking plastic is food
Analysis of liver tumours, among other types of cancer, is helping to link gene-expression patterns to patient survival. Steve Gschmeissner/SPL
Cancer
A prognostic cancer map
If it weren’t for ants, detritus would pile up in many forests. Ian Nichols/NGC
