A myopia epidemic is sweeping the globe (www.nature.com)
A myopia epidemic is sweeping the globe. Here’s how to stop it (www.nature.com)
Global climate-change trends detected in indicators of ocean ecology - Nature (2023) (www.nature.com)
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Monitoring, trends and impacts of light pollution - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment (www.nature.com)
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Volcanic climate impacts can act as ultimate and proximate causes of Chinese dynastic collapse - (2021) (www.nature.com)
State or societal collapses are often described as featuring rapid reductions in socioeconomic complexity, population loss or displacement, and/or political discontinuity, with climate thought to contribute mainly by disrupting a society’s agroecological base. Here we use a state-of-the-art multi-ice-core reconstruction of...
Combined cement and steel recycling could cut CO2 emissions (www.nature.com)
Observation of neutron emission during acoustic cavitation of deuterated titanium powder (www.nature.com)
Examining the unsustainable relationship between SDG performance, ecological footprint and international spillovers - Scientific Reports (www.nature.com)
The angular momentum of a black hole has been measured for the first time using the oscillating remnants of a star. (www.nature.com)
Mars rover mission will use pioneering nuclear power source (www.nature.com)
Can I ask how everyone personally feels about using nuclear material for space exploration? For the rovers heating elements it will be just a couple of grams but for generating electricity via a RTG a spacecraft would require several kilograms of radioactive material.
Egypt is building a $1-billion mega-museum. Will it bring Egyptology home? (www.nature.com)
For 100 years, Egypt’s scientists have watched as their nation’s story was largely told by institutions from Europe and the United States....
Pay researchers to spot errors in published papers (www.nature.com)
Borrowing the idea of ‘bug bounties’ from the technology industry could provide a systematic way to detect and correct the errors that litter the scientific literature....
Harassment of scientists is surging — institutions aren’t sure how to help (www.nature.com)
As researchers increasingly face many kinds of attack over their work, there is debate about how to support and protect them....
Integrating human endogenous retroviruses into transcriptome-wide association studies highlights novel risk factors for major psychiatric conditions - Nature Communications (www.nature.com)
Snippet: HERVs are “non-coding” sequences comprising of genetic material that originated from the infection of germ cells with ancient retroviruses during evolution, which now constitute approximately 8% of the human genome7,8,9. After the initial infections took place, these sequences inserted in the genome and multiplied...
Industrialised fishing nations largely contribute to floating plastic pollution in the North Pacific subtropical gyre - Scientific Reports (www.nature.com)
Could bird flu in cows lead to a human outbreak? Slow response worries scientists (www.nature.com)
Researchers also say more sampling is needed. Almost 50 herds of dairy cattle across 9 US states have had confirmed cases of H5N1, and one infected person has been linked to the outbreak. But the actual numbers are probably much higher, scientists say. “There’s almost certainly been a lot more human cases than just the...
‘Quantum internet’ demonstration in cities is most advanced yet (www.nature.com)
Experiments generate quantum entanglement over optical fibres across three real cities, marking progress towards networks that could have revolutionary applications.
Why mathematics is set to be revolutionized by AI (www.nature.com)
Chinese doctors treated an end-stage type 2 diabetic patient by implanting islet tissue derived in vitro from his own endoderm stem cells. The patient has been insulin-independent for 33 months. (www.nature.com)
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Brain-reading device is best yet at decoding ‘internal speech’ (www.nature.com)
Brain-machine interfaces implanted in the participants of this study in the supramarginal gyrus (SMG) and primary somatosensory cortex (S1) were successfully able to decode both internally spoken and vocalized words....
Found at last: long-lost branch of the Nile that ran by the pyramids (www.nature.com)
Stretching beneath the ground near the Giza pyramid complex in Egypt lie the remains of an ancient branch of the Nile River that might once have helped ancient Egyptians to build their monuments....
Human embryos embrace asymmetry to form the body (www.nature.com)
This study performed lineage tracing of live human embryos from the first cleavage division until the blastocyst stage and discovered that the majority of cells in the EPI, the future human body, originate from one of the two cells in most embryos. The first blastomere to divide at the 2-cell stage has a higher likelihood to...
Frequency-encoded eye tracking smart contact lens for human–machine interaction - Nature Communications (www.nature.com)
Calorie restriction is the most reasonable anti-ageing intervention: a meta-analysis of survival curves - Scientific Reports (www.nature.com)
