Download the Nature Podcast 12 June 2024 In this episode: 00:48 Short-haul spaceflight’s effect on the human body. A comprehensive suite of biomedical data, collected during the first all-civilian spaceflight, is helping researchers unpick the effects that being in orbit has on the human body. Analysis of data collected from the crew of SpaceX’s Inspiration4…

Fraught societal debates, particularly surrounding gender identity, are raising questions about how to best take sex and gender into account in research, both in studies of human health and in other contexts. At the same time, scientists are increasingly recognizing that they must move past assumptions that findings from mainly male individuals will apply to…

As the only full-time staff member at UC Santa Cruz’s Fort Ord Natural Reserve, Director Joe Miller doesn’t need to create more work for himself. And yet, he’s managed to do just that by successfully partnering with a nearby charter high school that brings students onto the 610-acre property to teach students about local natural…

Science funding could contribute more towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Science–practitioner partnerships illustrate how a patient and outcome-based approach could improve water security for millions of vulnerable people. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution Access options Access through your institution Change institution Buy or subscribe /* style…

Misconduct aftermath Misconduct allegations and findings can tear academic communities apart. This two-part series began by exploring the problems caused when secrecy surrounds disciplinary processes. In this second article, Nature investigates solutions, including restorative-justice programmes. When a scientist is found to have harassed a colleague or student, it can reverberate through the research community —…

By the end of this year, voters in some 65 countries and regions will have gone to the polls. That means close to half of the global population will have had the chance to cast a ballot of some sort, including almost 360 million people across the European Union. Not all of the world’s political…

Visitors at a nature reserve in India recently witnessed an incredibly rare sight, when a bear and a tigress confronted each other in a standoff that very nearly broke into a fight. The scene unfolded in April at Pilibhit Tiger Reserve, a protected area in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state. Visitors on a safari filmed…

Morphing soft matter, which is capable of changing its shape and function in response to stimuli, has wide-ranging applications in robotics, medicine and biology. Recently, computational models have accelerated its development. Here, we highlight advances and challenges in developing computational techniques, and explore the potential applications enabled by such models. This is a preview of…

The FBI arrested a number of scholars of Asian descent under a national security programme called the China Initiative, which ran from 2018 to 2022.Credit: Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty In a rare meeting between the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the academic community on Thursday, members of the FBI sought to reassure researchers…

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