Sharks Don’t Sink Jasmin Graham Pantheon (2024) Burnt out by a ”toxic, white, male-dominated publish-or-perish environment”, tired of being left to clean up rooms after a meeting and talked to as though she was lazy, Jasmin Graham quit academia in December 2019. Scrolling through Twitter (now X) one day in 2020 — during the pandemic…

The devastation of hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis or tornadoes is often conveyed by how many people have been injured or killed. And based on this, we assess “how bad was it really?” For example, the recent hurricane season in the Atlantic has cost nearly 300 lives in the US and the Caribbean, with Helene killing at…

Abstract The development of GaN-based Micro-LED arrays achieving brightnesses exceeding 107 nits and high-density micro-displays with up to 1080×780 pixels marks a true breakthrough in the field. This breakthrough is a result of mastering a combination of long-standing challenges comprising wafer-scale high-quality epitaxial growth, sidewall passivation, efficient photon extraction, and elegant bonding technologies, and promises…

Cores recovered from below the seafloor provide clues to open questions in Earth science. A looming gap in international ocean drilling requires renewed support and urgent action. Beneath the seafloor lie sediments, sometimes kilometres thick, draped over the oceanic crust. Recording as much as two hundred million years of Earth history, these sediments provide insights…

EU research commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva held positions in the Bulgarian government.Credit: Thierry Monasse/Getty The European Union has a new research head, tasked with reshaping the world’s biggest collaborative research programme to help stop the bloc’s economic and technological downward slide. Ekaterina Zaharieva, a lawyer who has held multiple positions in the Bulgarian government — albeit…

Abstract Recent studies have indicated potential health risks associated with microplastics (MPs) exposure, including alterations in blood coagulation homeostasis. This cross-sectional study aimed to quantitatively examine MPs in human blood and assess their association with coagulation markers. We recruited 36 healthy adults, collected whole blood samples, and analyzed MPs using Fourier-transform infrared (µ-FTIR) spectroscopy. Lifestyle…

Abstract Computational analysis of a large number of genomes requires a data structure that can represent the dataset compactly while also enabling efficient operations on variants and samples. However, encoding genetic data in existing tabular data structures and file formats has become costly and unsustainable. Here we introduce the genotype representation graph (GRG), a fully…

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Communication between neurons (illustration) in two separate brain regions is patchy in mice that are susceptible to severe stress. Credit: Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library Stress-induced brain signature dampens joy Joylessness induced by stress leaves a distinct…

Institutions including the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, UK, are offering courses in science and evidence in public policy.Credit: Hufton+Crow/View Pictures/Universal Images Group/Getty Earlier this year, Nature asked science-policy specialists which country is particularly good at ensuring science is factored into government decisions. The question mystified many respondents. “Not aware of…

The virtual lab set-up used several LLMs to design antibody fragments that could bind to SARS-CoV-2.Credit: KTSDESIGN/Science Photo Library via Getty In an effort to automate scientific discovery using artificial intelligence (AI), researchers have created a virtual laboratory that combines several ‘AI scientists’ — large language models with defined scientific roles — that can collaborate…