NATURE

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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How much would you pay for free shipping?

They’re so quiet when they crawl down the street. But you still know. Some forgotten sense, some warning unneeded for…

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how a molecule went from bit player to star of the show

mRNA technology was the foundation of one vaccine that helped to quell the COVID-19 pandemic.Credit: Davide Pischettola/NurPhoto/Getty The Catalyst: RNA…

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