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biologist who shaped genetic engineering and fought discrimination
Credit: National Institutes of Health The US molecular biologist Maxine Singer made discoveries about the role of enzymes in assembling…
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How pregnancy transforms the brain to prepare it for parenthood
In November 2008, neuroscientist Susana Carmona — then a postdoc studying attention deficit hyperactivity disorder — was driving two colleagues…
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Meet the retired scientists who collaborate with younger colleagues
Julie Gould 00:09 Hello and welcome to Working Scientist, a Nature Careers podcast. I’m Julie Gould. This is the sixth…
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Modi bets big on nuclear energy and space
The Indian government wants to expand the country’s space economy fivefold in the next 10 years.Credit: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP via Getty…
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A dumpster full of mercury and other things to avoid: lab closures made simple
Julie Gould 00:09 Hello, and welcome to Working Scientist, a Nature Careers podcast. I’m Julie Gould. This is the fifth…
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China–US research collaborations are in decline — this is bad news for everyone
Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology in the US and Tianjin University in China collaborated to create the world’s first…
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Severe turbulence ahead — how scientists can keep air travellers safe in a warming world
Climate change is not just leading to more heatwaves and hurricanes — it’s making the atmosphere more turbulent, too. As…
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What Twisters gets right — and wrong — about tornado science
When Hollywood producers showed up a few years ago at Sean Waugh’s office, he couldn’t wait to show them his…
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Atom-swap chemistry speeds synthesis of compounds for drug discovery
Nature, Published online: 03 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02017-0 Reactions have been discovered that selectively transform nitrogen-containing rings, called pyrimidines, into various…
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The Milky Way is ‘less weird’ than we thought
Our Galactic home just got a remodel. Peering through the dust and gas that intersperse our Galaxy, astronomers have found…
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