A farmer in Belarus pitches manure onto his field to fertilize it. This practice could help limit use of imported phosphate fertilizers. Credit: Viktor Drachev/AFP/Getty
Biogeochemistry
Research Highlights
Selections from the scientific literature by Nature's news team
- Volume 567
- Issue 7749
Lighting bolts sizzle over Johannesburg, South Africa. Credit: Mitchell Krog/Getty
Researchers search for fossils in the Qingjiang bed along a river bank in Hubei Province, China. Credit: Dong King Fu
Women in Tanzania tend a bed of sweet wormwood. The plant is a source of the compound artemisinin, which cuts the number of malaria-causing parasites in patients’ blood. Credit: William Daniels/Panos
Chemical biology
This plant is hiding secret stores of an anti-malaria drug
This young rhesus macaque was buried in 2800–2200 BC in a human cemetery near the modern-day Iran–Afghanistan border. Credit: Claudia Minniti
The Yangshan Deep Water Port in Shanghai, China, is part of the world’s busiest container port. Growth in shipping through such ports raises the risk that invasive species will spread. Credit: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg/Getty
Environmental sciences
Invasive species to surge as ship traffic soars on the high seas
A brain-tumour-on-a-chip includes a central core of tumour cells (purple) and a ring of endothelial cells (magenta), which line blood-vessel walls. Credit: Hee-Gyeong Yi
