three ways she changed science
Jane Goodall, a British primatologist known for her work with chimpanzees, died on Wednesday 1 October, aged 91.…
what it means for science
The US government ceased many operations early on Wednesday after Congress failed to pass legislation to fund agencies’…
Want to do disruptive science? Include more rookie researchers
Collaborations with a higher proportion of unpublished researchers can yield papers that present groundbreaking ideas.Credit: StÃgur Már Karlsson/Heimsmyndir…
Ebola outbreak in the DRC: why is it so deadly? – Nature
Ebola outbreak in the DRC: why is it so deadly? NatureEbola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo…
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Pregnant people have long relied on paracetamol for pain and fever. Credit: BSIP/Universal Images Group/Getty The painkiller acetaminophen…
Gestational diabetes linked to autism in study: what scientists say
Gestational diabetes can have long-term effects on women’s health. Credit: Yui Mok/PA Images via Alamy Last week, a…
A domed pachycephalosaur from the early Cretaceous of Mongolia
Sues, H.-D. Functional morphology of the dome in pachycephalosaurid dinosaurs. N. Jb. Geol. Palaontol. Mh. 8, 459–472 (1978).…
Ssmoke-dried mummies pre-date Egypt’s embalmed bodies – Nature
Ssmoke-dried mummies pre-date Egypt’s embalmed bodies NatureOldest Human Mummies Discovered, And They’re Not What We Expected ScienceAlertThe oldest mummies in…
Weird ‘time crystals’ are made visible at last
A time crystal as seen under a microscope.Credit: Zhao & Smalyukh, 2025, Nature Materials A time crystal is…
Long-range PM2.5 pollution and health impacts from the 2023 Canadian wildfires
Model framework This study combines multiple datasets and models, as presented in Extended Data Fig. 1, to estimate…
Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors
Definition of events From the EM-DAT database, we select the events only after 2000, because the reporting is…
US man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant
Tim Andrews leaving hospital in January after he received a genetically modified pig kidney.Credit: Kate Flock/Massachusetts General Hospital…