A regional university in southwest China, little known to the wider world, has eclipsed much more famous Western institutions with its high-quality scientific research output, according to a new ranking of global universities. Advertisement Sichuan University (SCU), in Chengdu, the provincial capital, has overtaken Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Oxford University and…

At first glance, Jeff Wilkerson’s memoir of science and nature, “23 Woodcock in 22 Years,” seems a bit of an anomaly. The subtitle Reflections on Hunting, the Night Sky, and Our Place in the Universe seems even more incongruous. However, Wilkerson, professor of physics at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, masterfully blends the seemingly disparate…

Exeter’s new Nature and Climate Impact Team made its debut in Davos this week during a provocative and frank panel discussion with key experts. To an audience of business and policy leaders at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting, Exeter’s new team was praised as a “clever idea” as it aims to bring science and…

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Social-media platform Bluesky has more than 27 million users.Credit: Peter Kováč/Alamy Seventy per cent of Nature readers who responded to an online poll are using the social-media platform Bluesky, which works a lot like X (formerly Twitter) and whose popularity has soared in recent months, in particular since the November US election. Although the survey…

If you’ve visited Science North at any point during its more than 40-year history, you’ll probably know about the Nature Exchange program, which allows visitors to bring in items they’ve found in nature and exchange them from items in the collection. Now, that program is going global. The science centre held a press conference Jan.…

If you’ve visited Science North at any point during its more than 40-year history, you’ll probably know about the Nature Exchange program, which allows visitors to bring in items they’ve found in nature and exchange them from items in the collection. Now, that program is going global. The science centre held a press conference Jan.…

As manager of the microscopy service at Uruguay’s Advanced Bioimaging Unit, Marcela Díaz has been able to develop her twin passions for teaching and microscopy.Credit: Sabrina Cittadino Since its establishment in 2021, Latin America Bioimaging (LABI) has significantly advanced the bioimaging community across the region. With 545 members from 31 countries, LABI aims to promote…

Mitochondria (artificially coloured) are swapped between cells, contrary to an earlier dogma that they stayed with their cells of origin.Credit: K.R. Porter/Science Photo Library Cancer cells can poison attacking immune cells by filling them with defective mitochondria ― dampening the body’s defensive forces and helping the tumour to evade eradication1. These findings, published today in…

We highlight the important role of neuromorphic computing in enhancing the power efficiency and performance of AI. Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized a vast range of domains in the past few years. Notably, large language models (LLMs) have led to the development of general human-like conversational agents, such as ChatGPT, as well as expert, domain-specific…