Nature - 15.08.2019

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STRESSED OUT Water stress is a fact of life for more than 2 billion people p. MY NAME IS HERACLES Metre- high flightless parrot ...

Pandemic bonds: designed to fail in Ebola The World Bank’s funding scheme for disease outbreaks drained potential resources from ...

Two Ebola drugs have proved so effective in a clinical trial that researchers will make the treatments available to anyone infec ...

STEVE GSCHMEISSNER/GETTY SOURCE: F. HE ET AL. GLOB. CHANGE BIOL. HTTPS://DOI.ORG/10.1111/GCB.14753 (2019). Freshwater megafishes ...

ORIGINS Microbe grown in lab could help to explain rise of complex life p. ASTRONOMY What’s next for the beleaguered Thirty Mete ...

“Unfortunately, some countries don’t seem to understand the dire need of stopping deforestation in the tropics,” says Pörtner. “ ...

RONIT FAHL/ZUMA before the TMT begins operations). “We have always been here and we will always be here,” said Kealoha Pisciotta ...

BY JONATHAN LAMBERT S cientists in Japan report that they have isolated and grown microbes from an ancient lineage of archaea — ...

COSMOLOGY Sky map to plot dark energy A telescope in Arizona will survey galaxies to reconstruct 11 billion years of cosmic hist ...

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INTO THE DARK AGES Radioastronomers take aim at the Universe’s first billion years. T o get an idea of what the Universe looks l ...

Universe is another layer of the water- melon, the section bet ween the green shell and the pink flesh. This represents the firs ...

dark matter, nobody has identified exactly what it is. Signals from the EOR would help to indi- cate whether dark matter consist ...

as an increase in soil moisture or pruning of a nearby bush, can make a difference — just as the quality of an FM radio signal c ...

SOCIAL JUSTICE Astronomer says stop and listen to Native Hawaiians at Mauna Kea p. SUSTAINABILITY Sand plunder risks health and ...

‘Key Concepts for Informed Choices’). We hope that scientists and professionals in all fields will evaluate, use and comment on ...

necessarily causing the other. The media sometimes perpetuates this problem by using language suggesting that cause and effect h ...

schoolchildren learn these key concepts, rather than delaying acquisition of these skills until adulthood. Young people who have ...

T he term ‘bioethics’ was coined in 1926, yet the field itself did not emerge until the 1970s. Although my 1975 university thesi ...