Cyberattacks are hitting research institutions — with devastating effects
Ransomeware attacks lock users out of their systems until a payment is made.Credit: solarseven/Getty Last October, a cyberattack hit the...
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I raise delicate butterflies on the mean streets of New York
“Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) are complex creatures, which is part of what makes them so interesting to me. Every breeding...
How white supremacy became a global health problem
Systemic: How Racism Is Making Us Ill Layal Liverpool Bloomsbury Circus (2024)When Layal Liverpool developed light, itchy patches on her...
the cutting-edge chips powering the computing revolution
This March, an eager crowd of 12,000 people filled a stadium in San Jose, California. “I hope you realize this...
What is science? Tech heavyweights brawl over definition
X owner Elon Musk (left) and artificial-intelligence pioneer Yann LeCun sparred on the social-media platform about scientific publications.Credit: Slaven Vlasic/Getty...
How NASA astronauts are training to walk on the Moon in 2026
HOUSTON, TEXASNASA astronaut Kate Rubins was having a hard time seeing in the eerie twilight of the Moon’s south pole...
Acceleration of radiative recombination for efficient perovskite LEDs
To achieve highly efficient and bright thin-film LEDs, a combination of factors is necessary for the light-emitting materials. These include...
How to stop students cramming for exams? Send them to sea
Nature, Published online: 30 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01209-yAn innovative proposal to stop exam over-preparation, plus William Bateson’s 1924 take on the...
Long online discussions are consistently the most toxic
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 16 April 2024 An ambitious investigation has analysed discourse on eight social-media platforms, covering a vast array of...
physicist who predicted boson that explains why particles have mass
Credit: Toni Albir/EPA/Shutterstock During a few weeks in the summer of 1964, Peter Higgs, a theoretical physicist at the University...
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