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Career Feature |
Breaking ice, and helicopter drops: winning photos of working scientists
Nature’s annual photography competition attracted stunning images from around the world, including two very different shots featuring the Polarstern research vessel.
- Jack Leeming
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Book Review |
Dogwhistles, drilling and the roots of Western civilization: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Career News |
Londoners see what a scientist looks like up close in 50 photographs
Nature’s Where I Work images are being exhibited in the UK capital until June.
- Jack Leeming
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Book Review |
Wild women and restoring public trust: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Futures |
The real time-travel paradox was the friends we made along the way
Life at the cutting edge.
- Rodrigo Culagovski
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Book Review |
Verbose robots, and why some people love Bach: Books in Brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Career Feature |
The neuroscientist formerly known as Prince’s audio engineer
Susan Rogers worked with the legendary singer-songwriter before earning a PhD in her 50s on auditory memory and how we listen to music throughout life.
- Anne Gulland
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Career News |
Show off your science in Nature’s photo competition
The 2024 Working Scientist photo competition is open for entries. Capture your science on camera for a chance to appear in Nature.
- Jack Leeming
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Arts Review |
159 days of solitude: how loneliness haunts astronauts
The psychological pressures of going into space might be as hard as the physical feat, a documentary reveals.
- Alexandra Witze
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News Q&A |
Meet the real-life versions of Dune’s epic sandworms
A Dune-loving worm palaeontologist makes the case that worms have been just as important on Earth as they are in the blockbuster film.
- Julian Nowogrodzki
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Book Review |
The enigmas of language and immunology, and other reads: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Book Review |
The mysteries of seaweeds and stars, and other reads: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Futures |
Welcome aboard the Silva family historic spaceside attraction tour
A trip of a lifetime.
- Carol Scheina
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Book Review |
It’s time to admit that genes are not the blueprint for life
The view of biology often presented to the public is oversimplified and out of date. Scientists must set the record straight, argues a new book.
- Denis Noble
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Book Review |
A forgotten Aztec scholar and more: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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News |
Israel is flooding Gaza’s tunnel network: scientists assess the risks
The plan to target Hamas involves filling parts of a 500-kilometre-long network of underground tunnels. Researchers warn this could affect Gaza’s water supplies.
- Josie Glausiusz
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News & Views |
From the archive: Mendelian inheritance, and an enigmatic echo
Snippets from Nature’s past.
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Book Review |
Gripped by dinosaurs, and a unified theory of behaviour: Books in Brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Book Review |
How we remember the dead by their digital afterlives
A broad-ranging analysis asks whether we can achieve a kind of immortality by documenting our lives and deaths online.
- Margaret Gibson
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Book Review |
The handwriting of the greats, and solutions that make things worse: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Career Column |
How Dark Souls and Darth Revan helped me to make sense of my professorship
John Tregoning compares academia to role-playing video games as a way to discuss how the choices we make can affect the paths we take.
- John Tregoning
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Book Review |
Prebunking propaganda, and how to live well: 2023’s best of Books in brief
Connoisseur Andrew Robinson gives ten of his favourite tomes from the year a more expansive review.
- Andrew Robinson
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Book Review |
How to parent AI, and climate change vs democracy: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Nature Podcast |
Navigating planets, plays and prejudice — a conversation with Aomawa Shields
The astronomer joins us to talk about her memoir Life on Other Planets.
- Benjamin Thompson
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Book Review |
Were Neanderthals soulful inventors or strange cannibals?
To understand the true otherness of Neanderthals, researchers must rethink the meaning they give to their archaeological finds, argues a new book.
- Rebecca Wragg Sykes
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News |
The world’s largest proteins? These mega-molecules turn bacteria into predators
A candidate for the largest known protein might help killer aquatic bacteria to devour other microbes — but it’s not easy to study the behemoths, or prove they’re even real.
- Ewen Callaway
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Writing dissected, and big answers to simple questions: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Nature Careers Podcast |
How to create compelling scientific data visualizations
Start with pen and paper, keep things simple, do your coding at the end, say data visualization specialists.
- Julie Gould
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Cosmic rentals
Dad always mows on summer Saturday mornings
Three possible muses
These monkeys make no sense
The warfighter
Plutopalooza
Eyes on history
Backdoor
Turing test — all my broken hearts
Missense, nosense and nonsense
Tyrannomorphs
The Alcubierre key
MANNA
Animal Ark
Welcome to your post-apocalyptic bunker rental!
Nostalgia
A girl travels to the end of the Universe
Curiosity shop
Time crystal
Nomad
Endlings
Stuck in the middle