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Research in Chornobyl zone restarts amid ravages of war
In early 2022, ecologist Bohdan Prots was ready to begin a bold new project to restore ecosystems around the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine. Prots and his team were preparing to recreate lost wetlands there in an effort to rewild them and cut the risks of wildfires that spread radioactivity. His first step…
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Amazon protector: the Brazilian politician who turned the tide on deforestation
Credit: Adriano Machado for Nature This story is part of Nature’s 10, an annual list compiled by Nature’s editors exploring key developments in science and the individuals who contributed to them. In a year that brought unrelenting bad environmental news, with record global warming, searing heatwaves and fires, Marina Silva delivered a hopeful message on…
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Malaria fighter: this researcher paved the way for a game-changing vaccine
This story is part of Nature’s 10, an annual list compiled by Nature’s editors exploring key developments in science and the individuals who contributed to them. In October, work and life collided for Halidou Tinto when his six-year-old daughter caught malaria. A director of clinical trials for malaria drugs and vaccines for more than a…
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Making mice with two dads: this biologist rewrote the rules on sexual reproduction
This story is part of Nature’s 10, an annual list compiled by Nature’s editors exploring key developments in science and the individuals who contributed to them. When Katsuhiko Hayashi and his colleagues announced in March that they had produced mouse pups from the cells of two male parents, the news literally floored some researchers. “I…
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From inception to current challenges in bioinformatics
Dr Paulien Hogeweg — professor of bioinformatics at Utrecht University, who in the 1970s, together with Ben Hesper, coined the term ‘bioinformatics’ — talks to Nature Computational Science about her work on the Cellular Potts model, the integration of spatial information in modeling approaches, and her ongoing research on multilevel evolution. My interest in the…
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Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy linked to hormone from fetus
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45 Simple and Fun Preschool Science Experiments and Activities
Every day is a new opportunity for toddlers to ask “Why?” over and over. Tap into that curiosity with these fun and engaging science activities for preschoolers. These simple experiments incorporate many preschool favorites like playing with bubbles or water, making arts and crafts, and, of course, making a mess! To make things even easier,…
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Fungi and flatworms: Scientists want more diverse nature emojis
Too many cats, not enough crustaceans: The current emoji catalog doesn’t accurately represent the breadth of biodiversity seen in nature — and that hurts conservation efforts, according to scientists. An analysis published Monday in the journal iScience found that while animals are well represented by the current emoji catalog, plants, fungi, and microorganisms get short…
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Academic clinician–scientists risk becoming an endangered species
Barriers to their training and retention threaten medical research Download PDF Concerns about the future of the clinician–scientist have been expressed for many decades. In 1984, Gordon Gill wrote of ‘the end of the physician scientist’ as he observed academically oriented US doctors move into basic science labs to learn the new techniques of molecular…
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What the Ottomans did for science — and science did for the Ottomans
The open court of the mosque of Al-Azhar University in Cairo, seen in 1880.Credit: Alamy The Ottoman Scientific Heritage Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu (trans. Maryam Patton) Al-Furqān (2023) Empires have long used science and engineering to power their expansion and survival. Advances in medicine have helped to keep armies in a state of battle readiness. Innovations in…