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Wind energy is the lively vitality related with the motion of ambience air. Wind turbines metamorphose the energy in the wind into automatic potentially, farther transform to electrical power to
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Pollution is the establishment of damaging substance into the habitat. These damaging matter are called contamination. Contamination can be true, such as stormy embers. They can also
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Data analysis has been the fallback for many researchers whose fieldwork has been halted because
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So, we are still here, still grinding our way
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I am a PhD candidate in molecular neuroscience at Rutgers University
Burning the
Researchers often complain about the indicators that hiring and grant committees use to judge them. In the past ten years, initiatives such as the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment
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The Empire of Depression:
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A presentation is not a journal article — so don’t prepare for them in the
Kelsey Huntington, a pathology PhD student, applied her knowledge of the immune system in colorectal
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Black people are seriously under-represented
The Metropolitan Police in London used facial-recognition cameras to scan for wanted people in February.Credit:
DIY hardware, such as this 3D-printed fluorescence microscope, is bringing cutting-edge research and diagnostics to
The brain’s thalamus has historically been thought of as a relay centre that transmits sensory and motor inputs to the cortex for processing, or that transmits information from one part
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US election result raises
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have a mountain to climb, but the work starts now.Credit:
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In India, which has the world’s second-largest COVID-19 outbreak, there
Joe Biden is set to become the 46th president of the United States.Credit: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty
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In 2015, while we
Two years ago, immunologist and medical-publishing entrepreneur Leslie Norins offered to award US$1 million of his own money to any scientist who could prove that Alzheimer’s disease was caused by
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These tiny structures, known as brain organoids, are grown
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NIH director Francis Collins has been criticised for not moving faster to strengthen the agency’s
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The tide of reckoning on systemic
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An instrument on the International Space Station is providing new insights into some of the Universe’s most baffling objects.
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As a proud member of the Aboriginal Ngarrindjeri, Kaurna and Latje Latje Nations and an archaeologist at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, I am interested in walking the land.
Mathematical epidemiologist Neil Ferguson led Imperial College London's influential simulation of the coronavirus pandemic, released
Hydroxychloroquine tablets: a study suggesting that this malaria drug might be dangerous to people with
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Before leaving the lab, think about what mode of science communication appeals most.
a, b, Western blot analysis of H3K9me3 levels in the following cells with or without treatment with 2 mM αKG for 96 h: SNU1079 IDH1R132C/+ cholangiocarcinoma cells (a), U87 IDH1WT and IDH1R132H/+
The Rhineland cohort study in Bonn, Germany, has collected blood samples from 5,000 people so
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This week’s been tough. That swine, reviewer 2, reached
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Passengers on an underground train in Seoul. South Korea used contact tracing to great effect
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The idea of repairing the brain by replacing the neurons that die in Parkinson’s disease has been a long-standing dream for researchers in the field. Over the past few decades,
Einstein on
John Horton Conway was one of the most versatile mathematicians of the past century, who made influential contributions to group theory, analysis, topology, number theory, geometry, algebra and combinatorial game
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Last month I lost a co-author and friend whose interdisciplinary work now seems chillingly prescient. Robert May, once chief scientific adviser to the UK government and president of the Royal
Animals, such as minks, that can be infected with the coronavirus could reveal clues about
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I was fortunate enough to go into the laboratory
Last week, I had an unexpected encounter on Zoom. The callers were senior government officials from the Togolese Republic, in West Africa.
Why? The president of Togo wants to send cash
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As the coronavirus spreads, so does an infodemic of misinformation. Researchers across the world are attempting to understand the viral power
More than 60 coronavirus tests have been approved for emergency use in an effort to
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Benjamin Thompson, Noah Baker, and Amy Maxmen discuss the latest COVID-19 news.
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5 May — Paltry historical funding for coronavirus-related research
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, funding for research related to coronaviruses constituted just 0.5% of global spending on infectious-disease studies by public and
Early in the COVID-19 outbreak, I was surprised and relieved that mental health was getting due attention. The World Health Organization released guidelines on how to protect your mental health
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Like most people’s, my working life at the moment
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Philip Warren Anderson, who has
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A new fossil suggests that Spinosaurus aegyptiacus was a swimming predator powered by a fin-like tail, making it potentially unique amongst
More than 90 vaccines are being developed against SARS-CoV-2 by research teams in companies and universities across the world. Researchers are trialling different technologies, some of which haven’t been used
Being a PhD student abroad during a time of major upheaval in my home country, Venezuela, has been a frustrating experience in many ways, and it took a toll on
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People
Benjamin Thompson, Noah Baker, and Amy Maxmen discuss the latest COVID-19 news.
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Kakapo are probably the weirdest birds in the world: they’re large, flightless, nocturnal parrots. Found only in New Zealand, they are critically endangered and now live only on four predator-free
Private cars are responsible for about 11% of the world’s total carbon dioxide emissions. That’s the greatest share in the transport sector, which accounts for 24% of emissions overall1. Petrol
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“Find your passion” is, I think, one of the most
Benjamin Thompson, Noah Baker, and Amy Maxmen discuss the latest COVID-19 news.
Antibody tests might be used to help stem the COVID-19 pandemic — but first must
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Benjamin Thompson, Noah Baker, and Amy Maxmen discuss the latest COVID-19 news.
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The coronavirus outbreak has left many of us
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Planners have known that something like COVID-19 would come, even if they could never be sure when or from where. It is hard for politicians to garner the social licence
In 1945, a young chemist called Werner Bergmann was diving off the Florida coast, scouring its waters for undiscovered marine life. One of the species he came across was a
Michelle Cipicchio (right) trains two lab technicians at the Broad Institute to extract viral RNA
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More and more people the world over have two or more long-term diseases at once — known as multimorbidity. This is the case for at least half of Europe’s population
Understanding what causes colorectal cancer (CRC) could help to combat this disease of the colon. Writing in Nature, Pleguezuelos-Manzano et al.1 report evidence that strengthens a previously suspected connection to
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The US national academy is urging funders
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COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak
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A way to approach the problem of quantifying the economic
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An image of the new coronavirus taken with an electron microscope.Credit: U.S. National Institutes of
Down to Earth. NASA astronaut Christina Koch emerges from the Soyuz spacecraft, which landed in Kazakhstan on 6 February. Koch returned to Earth after spending 328 days on board the
This paper is a product of the African Tropical Rainforest Observatory Network (AfriTRON), curated at ForestPlots.net. AfriTRON has been supported by numerous people and grants since its inception. We sincerely
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A group of kea, a type of parrot from New Zealand, have been surprising scientists with their smart predictions. Researchers set
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Climate litigant Nathan Baring speaks during a Senate Climate Task Force meeting in Washington D.C.
A published paper is all well and good, but it is hard for it to have much impact on the wider
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“He has enriched the world
Timothy Brown was the first person with HIV to be successfully treated with transplants of
The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the focus of a project to synthesize one of the
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The outbreak of a new coronavirus
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The day after she submitted a grant proposal last
As a marine ecologist at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Australia, I make about 150 dives a year, looking for threatened marine species. I focus on animals and plants
The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) was upgraded from endangered to vulnerable in 2016.Credit: Cyril Ruoso/Minden
Medics check on people with COVID-19 in Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, China.Credit: Feature China/Barcroft Media
For more than half a century, Japan has been at the forefront of 'big physics', asking fundamental questions about the laws which govern the workings of the universe. Questions of
The rise of preprint repositories has helped scientists worldwide to share results and get feedback quickly. But several platforms that serve researchers in emerging economies are struggling to raise money
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The world that is grappling with 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is different from how it was during the SARS and H1N1 pandemics. The disease itself, and information and disinformation, now
The topic in brief
• There is an ongoing debate about whether social media and the use of digital devices are detrimental to mental health.
• Adolescents tend to be heavy users
The Solar Orbiter (left) and NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will be able to observe the
A microscope image of a cell infected with the novel coronavirus, grown in culture at
The 24/7, ‘always-on’ nature of modern life is not sustainable.Credit: Getty
Setting an
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The PCAWG series consists of 2,778 tumour samples (2,703 white listed, 75 grey listed) from 2,658 donors. All samples in this dataset underwent whole-genome sequencing (minimum average coverage 30× in
As a metal platform rises from a vat of liquid resin, it pulls an intricate white shape from the liquid — like a waxy creature emerging from a lagoon. This
An algorithm deployed across the United States is now known to underestimate the health needs of black patients1. The algorithm uses health-care costs as a proxy for health needs. But
Doris Taylor knows the sting of being set apart as different. As a young, lesbian woman starting her career in regenerative-medicine research in the late 1980s, she was often excluded
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With no sign that an outbreak of
Chinese authorities have put protective measures in place as the new coronavirus spreads.Credit: Kevin Frayer/Getty
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United
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This is part of the Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean, one of the most remote archipelagos in the world. It’s more than 3,000 kilometres from Madagascar, the nearest
When the British House of Commons voted this month not to uphold child refugees’ right to join family members in the United Kingdom, I was reminded of something. As a
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They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch,
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People are often curious about how their bodies work. So, it is no surprise that single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) — which has the power to map all the cell types
One of the most important travel necessities is a good pair of shoes. This is especially important if you intend to do activities like hiking on your trip. With the
A lethal viral outbreak in China probably originated in a Wuhan animal market, which has since been closed.Credit: Noel Celis/AFP/Getty
Scientists are increasingly concerned about a new virus that is spreading
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Research with human embryos is fraught, so some researchers are creating synthetic
The virus first surfaced at the end of 2019 in an animal and seafood market in Wuhan, central China.Credit: Noel Celis/AFP/Getty
As hundreds of millions of people in China take to
If you have embarked upon a camping adventure before, you’d know camping is a holistic activity that revitalizes the mind and feeds the soul.
Who wouldn’t love building a campfire and
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Damage to the ozone layer might also be liable for half of Arctic warming over 50 years, a new study claims.
An international team of researchers says the findings highlight ozone-depleting
Trilobites disappeared from the fossil record during the mass extinction at the end of the Permian period, 252 million years ago.Credit: Shutterstock
Palaeontologists have a fuzzy view of Earth’s history. An
A local agency said that the coffee farms in the province of Batangas and Cavite would take more than a year to recover after the volcano erupted on Sunday.
Rene Tongson,
At the beginning of the year, Dominic Cummings, a senior adviser to the UK government, posted an unusual advert on his blog, calling for data scientists, mathematicians and physicists to
If your family loves the idea of saving energy, there are several things you can do. Going green in your home helps create a healthier world in which we live,
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Canadian universities are mourning more than a dozen faculty and students who died when
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