Nature - USA (2020-01-16)

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Freedom of expression is core to a university’s mission.” university students, academics and scientists are also opposing the ne ...

The food system is not an equal one.” The life of archaea Cultivation of Asgard archaea brings us closer to understanding how co ...

By Hetan Shah Global problems need social science Hetan Shah is the incoming chief executive of the British Academy in London. e ...

LIMITED READERSHIP Papers published in predatory journals five years ago have attracted few or no citations. No citations 59.6% ...

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By Nidhi Subbaraman C anadian universities are mourning more than two dozen faculty mem- bers and students who died when Ukraine ...

Hogan lost a graduate student, Amir Saeedinia, who was travelling from Iran to begin his PhD in Hogan’s lab. “He worked very har ...

‘DarkSat’ prototype could help to address ‘megaconstellation’ threat to astronomy. SPACEX TESTS BLACK SATELLITE TO REDUCE REFLEC ...

WOLTER PEETERS/ THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD /GETTY Australia is in the grip of its worst wildfire season on record. The human deat ...

By Sarah Wild A n independent panel of reviewers has approved the design of what will be the world’s largest telescope — the Squ ...

Normal body temperatures are a fraction of a degree colder than they were in the nineteenth century. US DATA SUGGEST HUMAN BODIE ...

I t started out as “sort of a stupid thing to do”, recalls Joe Bondy-Denomy, a micro- biologist at the University of California, ...

The expansive roster opens up many questions about the archaic arms race between bacteria and the phages that prey on them. But ...

safety net against these potential bio-attacks, says Sandia biochemist Joe Schoeniger. “You need to have an off-button,” he says ...

The dangers of fringe economics Governments need to heed the evidence. Three books warn of the perils of untested ideas. By Ehsa ...

A prominent example is the ‘Laffer curve’, named after Arthur Laffer, who later became Ronald Reagan’s economic adviser. Bowmake ...

Exploding Stars and Invisible Planets Fred Watson Columbia Univ. Press (2020) Astronomer Fred Watson is a science communicator p ...

To understand how people use digital media, researchers need to move beyond screen time and capture everything we do and see on ...

A participant in a traditional Chinese opera competition plays on her phone. THOMAS PETER/REUTERS currently spending US$300 mill ...