how to fight back against a peer-review bully
Nyssa Silbiger still recalls the rude remark that reviewer three made in 2014 about her first paper describing…
black-hole breakthroughs will ‘only get better’
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) facility, in Hanford, Washington.Credit: IMAGO/Xinhua via Alamy Ten years after the historic…
Temporal control of human DNA replication licensing by CDK4/6-RB signalling and chemical genetics
Turning off origin licensing within one cell cycle We have previously developed protein depletion technologies to suppress initiation…
RFK Jr’s vaccine advisers will soon review four shots: what’s at stake
A child receives a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine earlier this year in Lubbock, Texas.Credit: Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Next…
The emergence of globular clusters and globular-cluster-like dwarfs
Brodie, J. P. & Strader, J. Extragalactic globular clusters and galaxy formation. Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 44, 193–267…
Population genetic structure of Chrysomya megacephala (Fabricius) of the Egyptian fauna
Anderson, G. S. & VanLaerhoven, S. L. Initial studies on insect succession on carrion in southwestern British Columbia.…
Dinosaur egg dated directly for the first time
Numerous dinosaur eggs have been found in Shiyan, China, but their age has been unknown until now.Credit: Dr.…
Octopus arm flexibility facilitates complex behaviors in diverse natural environments
Arm actions Twelve arm actions were identified from 15 behaviors with a total of 3,907 actions recorded from…
The maximum Tc of conventional superconductors at ambient pressure
Based on the observation that the coupling constant depends mainly on the phonon frequencies, McMillan in 196836 already…
Iron-respiring microbes could have a role in sulfur cycling
Fike, D. A., Bradley, A. S. & Rose, C. V. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 43, 593–622 (2015).…
AI-generated medical data can sidestep usual ethics review, universities say
Medical researchers at some institutions in Canada, the United States and Italy are using data created by artificial…
Probing the Kitaev honeycomb model on a neutral-atom quantum computer
Experimental system We use the experimental apparatus previously described in refs. 6,9,12,38,57, with key upgrades that enable efficient…