NATURE
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The Amazon’s gargantuan gardeners: manatees
Nature, Published online: 07 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02874-9 The aquatic mammals disperse seeds of their favourite foods as they migrate, according…
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Humans have evolved to digest starch more easily since the advent of farming
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 04 September 2024 The region of the human genome that harbours genes encoding amylase enzymes, which are crucial…
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Why repairing forests is not just about planting trees
Treewilding: Our Past, Present and Future Relationship with Forests Jake Robinson Pelagic (2024) Trees first appeared around 400 million years ago.…
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So you got a null result. Will anyone publish it?
Download the 30 August long read podcast The ‘file-drawer problem’, where findings with null or negative results gather dust and…
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What accelerates brain ageing? This AI ‘brain clock’ points to answers
A functional magnetic resonance imaging scan (artificially coloured) of a human brain. Researchers used data from such scans to measure…
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how to collaborate with non-governmental organizations
Too often, the potential of a biomedical discovery to tackle disease is not fully realized. Perhaps the economic return is…
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Cells poised to divide can delay their commitment to proliferate
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 21 August 2024 For a cell to progress through the G1 phase of the cell cycle and divide,…
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Field observations of Ambula tardus on Planet IN-409
Everybody tells you it takes time to adjust to the aliens’ way of life, but you don’t really understand what…
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How to win funding to talk about your science
Kizzmekia Corbett-Helaire explained her research on vaccines to US President Joe Biden during his visit to the National Institutes of…
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Are the Cosmic Gems the earliest star clusters ever detected?
NEWS AND VIEWS 12 August 2024 Observations might have uncovered star clusters that existed when the Universe was just 460…
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