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Daily briefing: ‘Milkshake brain’ — why we gravitate towards fatty foods
Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Neanderthals probably hunted cave lions, the extinct larger and heavier cousins of modern lions, for more than just food. (V. Minkus. NLD) Neanderthals hunted cave lions A spear mark on the 48,000-year-old skeleton of a cave…
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Daily briefing: ‘Milkshake brain’ — why we gravitate towards fatty foods
Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Neanderthals probably hunted cave lions, the extinct larger and heavier cousins of modern lions, for more than just food. (V. Minkus. NLD) Neanderthals hunted cave lions A spear mark on the 48,000-year-old skeleton of a cave…
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Apple revival: how science is bringing historic varieties back to life
Hundreds of apple varieties once popular in the United States have disappeared.Credit: Leah Choi for Nature When Jude Schuenemeyer picked the apple up off the ground in December 2017, he wondered whether his two-decade search was over. It was a firm winter apple, orange in colour with a distinctive ribbed shape and wider than it…
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Apple revival: how science is bringing historic varieties back to life
Hundreds of apple varieties once popular in the United States have disappeared.Credit: Leah Choi for Nature When Jude Schuenemeyer picked the apple up off the ground in December 2017, he wondered whether his two-decade search was over. It was a firm winter apple, orange in colour with a distinctive ribbed shape and wider than it…
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Science is under threat in Argentina — we must call out the danger
Argentina goes to the polls on 22 October to elect a new president. Scientists, including me, are deeply concerned: there is a very real prospect that the candidate of the far-right Libertarian Party, Javier Milei, could be our country’s next leader. Argentinian presidents have far-reaching powers. They are both head of state and head of…
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Science is under threat in Argentina — we must call out the danger
Argentina goes to the polls on 22 October to elect a new president. Scientists, including me, are deeply concerned: there is a very real prospect that the candidate of the far-right Libertarian Party, Javier Milei, could be our country’s next leader. Argentinian presidents have far-reaching powers. They are both head of state and head of…
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Scientists propose sweeping new law of nature, expanding on evolution
WASHINGTON, Oct 16 (Reuters) – When British naturalist Charles Darwin sketched out his theory of evolution in the 1859 book “On the Origin of Species” – proposing that biological species change over time through the acquisition of traits that favor survival and reproduction – it provoked a revolution in scientific thought. Now 164 years later,…
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Scientists propose sweeping new law of nature, expanding on evolution
WASHINGTON, Oct 16 (Reuters) – When British naturalist Charles Darwin sketched out his theory of evolution in the 1859 book “On the Origin of Species” – proposing that biological species change over time through the acquisition of traits that favor survival and reproduction – it provoked a revolution in scientific thought. Now 164 years later,…
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The waiting game
Pedestrian dynamics, a field that studies pedestrian movement and behavior, is gaining much importance as passenger numbers increase in many areas. Previous studies on passenger waiting behavior at railway platforms have revealed that the distribution of passengers in a space is not uniform but influenced by entryways and train stops. While these studies have been…
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Drug discovery with limited resources
Recent estimates have indicated that the median cost of researching and developing a drug is over US$1 billion per drug, with research and development taking an average of ten years. Thus, using machine learning (ML) to accelerate research timelines and reduce development costs is an appealing avenue, particularly for drug discovery centers in lower-to-middle-income countries…