At the edge of a garden in Visakhapatnam, a carpenter bee once drilled a perfect circular hole into an old log of wood. This tiny act of wild engineering caught the attention of naturalist and educator K Vimal Raj. Today, that very log, complete with the bee’s handiwork, is an exhibit at the Natural History…

A comprehensive open-source benchmarking suite is presented. It can be used to evaluate the performance and functionality of various quantum software development kits for manipulating and compiling quantum circuits. Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution Access options Access through your institution /* style…

A 2024 analysis of UK higher education found that students from minority ethnic groups are more likely than white students to drop out and less likely to be employed after graduation (see go.nature.com/4cakscu). Similar disparities exist in the United States, where white and Asian students have better graduation rates and career outcomes than do Black,…

A 2024 analysis of UK higher education found that students from minority ethnic groups are more likely than white students to drop out and less likely to be employed after graduation (see go.nature.com/4cakscu). Similar disparities exist in the United States, where white and Asian students have better graduation rates and career outcomes than do Black,…

Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan, architect of India’s space dream, passed away at 84. Credit: French Institute in India Remembering K. Kasturirangan, climate risks to mothers, India’s pandemic preparedness, mosquito threats from rising seas, and a tulsi boost for goat health Your browser does not support the audio element. Download MP3 See transcript

Science & Nature The City Nature Challenge Is Here. Upload Those Wild Photos, Chicagoans All wildlife — animals, plants and fungi — is fair game for the City Nature Challenge. (Patty Wetli / WTTW News) Hey, Chicagoans, you’ve been drafted by a team you probably didn’t even know was recruiting. For the 2025 City Nature…

Social constructs of descent-based identity, such as race and ethnicity, do not align with genetic groupings.Credit: Adamkaz/Getty In 1924, motivated by the rising eugenics movement, the United States passed the Johnson–Reed Act, which limited immigration to stem “a stream of alien blood, with all its inherited misconceptions”. A century later, at a campaign event last…

There is a large body of research into the experiences of participants in citizen science events, but what about those who organize them? It is largely assumed that the main drive is to gather data. However, organizers may have motivations beyond this. We examined the experiences of those who organized participation of UK cities in…

Abstract Driven by rapid advances in high-performance supercomputing, computational materials science has emerged as a powerful approach for exploring, designing, and predicting material properties at the atomic and molecular scales. Among the various computational tools developed in this field, the Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package (VASP) stands out as a widely adopted and highly versatile…

Gregor Mendel cross-bred some 28,000 garden pea plants (Pisum sativum) and studied traits such as their flower colour to make discoveries about genetic inheritance.Credit: imageBROKER/Alamy The Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel completed his groundbreaking work on genetic inheritance more than 160 years ago, after carefully studying seven traits in peas, including the shape and colour of…