Data collected by the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Hudson helped to determine that an iceberg (pictured) triggered an underwater landslide in early September 2018. Credit: A. Normandeau et al./Nature Geosci.
Research Highlights
Selections from the scientific literature by Nature's news team
- Volume 595
- Issue 7866
A detector that measures photons without altering them includes two mirrors (white cones in round aperture) inside a vacuum chamber (silver enclosure). Credit: Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
Optics and photonics
Tracking a photon without leaving a trace
Scat surprise: scientists discovered the beetle species Triamyxa coprolithica in the petrified droppings of a dinosaur-like animal. Credit: M. Qvarnström et al./Curr. Biol. (CC BY 4.0)
A carbon latticework (above) can cushion speeding projectiles or send them bouncing off its surface. Credit: Carlos Portela et al.
Materials science
Supersonic strikes leave just a dent in this super-light material
A cell in the brain region called the hippocampus, which contains neurons that can encode information about elapsed time. Credit: Robert McNeil, Baylor College of Medicine/SPL
Neuroscience
The ‘time neurons’ that help the brain keep track
A snapshot of galaxies and stars evolving a few hundred million years after the Big Bang (image extracted from a simulation). Gas filaments are depicted in purple, starlight in white, and highly energetic radiation from the most massive stars in yellow. Credit: Harley Katz, Beecroft Fellow/Univ. Oxford
Astronomy and astrophysics
When was cosmic dawn? Some of the most distant galaxies known hold a clue
The skull of a young man buried millennia ago in what is now Latvia. Genetic material extracted from the man’s remains has revealed DNA from an ancient form of plague. Credit: Dominik Göldner, BGAEU
