Nature - USA (2020-10-15)

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Biden has pledged that decisions on the pandemic response will be made by public-health professionals and not by politicians.” d ...

Of some 570 million farms in the world, more than 475 million are smaller than 2 hectares.” from the Ceres2030 team’s findings i ...

By Mary T. Bassett The label ‘activist’ should be an honour, not a slur.” Tired of science being ignored? Get political The idea ...

AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH GETS BILLION-DOLLAR BOOST Australia’s universities and national science agency have been thrown a lifeline i ...

By David Cyranoski I n the race for a coronavirus vaccine, China is making bold promises. A Chinese health official has publicly ...

abroad have been injected with one of the four Chinese vaccines under policies known as emergency-use authorization. The vaccine ...

begin at three existing underground detectors — in the United States, Italy and China — that search for dark-matter particles by ...

By Heidi Ledford & Ewen Callaway I t’s CRISPR. Two scientists who pioneered the revolutionary gene-editing technology are th ...

By Elizabeth Gibney & Davide Castelvecchi A mathematical physicist and two astronomers have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Phys ...

By Ewen Callaway & Heidi Ledford A trio of scientists who identified the virus responsible for many cases of hepatitis and l ...

By Davide Castelvecchi S cientists have created a mystery mat­ erial that seems to conduct electricity without any resistance at ...

Contact tracing for Trump’s travels would be ‘massive but feasible’ US President Donald Trump is reportedly doing well after a b ...

U nlike fine wine, the human body does not improve with age. Hear- ing fades, skin sags, joints give out. Even the body’s immune ...

become depleted: for example, older adults have fewer naive T cells that respond to new invaders, and fewer B cells, which produ ...

dampens down mTOR’s activity, albeit indi- rectly. Some studies suggest that people who take metformin are less likely to be hos ...

T he life’s work of US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — as evidenced in the political battle over her successor — had ...

Berni Alder (1925–2020) Theoretical physicist who pioneered the computer modelling of matter. B erni Alder pioneered computer si ...

London now shuns journal-based metrics in staff assessment; it relies more on peer judgement of research quality. At Mahidol Uni ...

quality from hypercompetitiveness and poor training; the unquestioning and inept reliance on metrics in evaluation; and systemat ...