Karin Kirk skiing.Credit: Chris Kerr Karin Kirk is a freelance science journalist who has built a career on icy ground. She lives in Bozeman, Montana, a corner of the northwestern United States known for its snow-capped mountains and vast wilderness areas. There, she balances her work as a science writer and climate educator with her…

Cillian Murphy picked up the best actor award for his portrayal of Oppenheimer.Credit: Landmark Media/Alamy Oppenheimer won big at last night’s Oscars, scooping 7 awards out of 13 nominations, including best picture. The film has been lauded for its accurate portrayal of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer’s life, and its examination of both the human and…

With the help of 16 grants from the National Science Foundation, researchers have painstakingly taken computed topography (CT) scans of more than 13,000 individual specimens to create 3D images of more than half of all the world’s animal groups, including mammals, fishes, amphibians and reptiles. The research team, made of members from The University of…

Rio de Janeiro recently met its constitutionally mandated goal of allocating 2% of its net revenue to science for the first time.Credit: lunopark/ Shutterstock Rio de Janeiro may be among the smallest of Brazil’s 26 states, but it’s also an economic powerhouse, second only to São Paulo, its larger and more populous neighbour to the…

The São Paulo Research Foundation created the Amazon +10 Fund to develop science, technology and innovation in AmazoniaCredit: LeoFFreitas / Getty Images Driving to a pump and filling the tank with hydrogen could soon be a reality for many. In mid-2024, oil and gas company Shell and FAPESP, the São Paulo Research Foundation, plan to…

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. The worm-like caecilian Siphonops annulatus is the first amphibian described to produce ‘milk’ for offspring hatched outside its body.Credit: Carlos Jared Amphibian nurses its young with ‘milk’ A species of amphibian is the first observed to…

Nature’s 2024 photo competition is now live, providing a chance to celebrate the diverse, interesting, challenging, striking and colourful work that scientists do around the world. Now in its fifth iteration, the competition is open to anyone who isn’t a professional photographer. It’s looking for images that showcase the work that scientists do — anywhere…

How to better support women in science across Latin America and beyond. Your browser does not support the audio element. Download MP3 See transcript In her role as Vice Rector for research partnerships and collaboration at the University of the Valley in Guatemala City, Monica Stein works to strengthen science and technology ecosystems in the…

Determining what guest can effectively bind in a host, or the reverse, is a central challenge in chemistry. To address this, an electron-density-based transformer method of generating and optimizing host–guest binders is proposed, applied to two different host systems and validated by experiment. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution Access…

As an academic who studies social policy and race, I was not surprised to learn of the resignation of Claudine Gay, former president of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who was the first Black woman to have the role. I was not shocked by the news that Antoinette Candia-Bailey, an administrator at Lincoln University of…