How does the brain control consciousness? This deep-brain structure
The inner structures of the brain are difficult to investigate without surgery.Credit: K H Fung/Science Photo LibraryNeuroscientists have observed for...
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Style over substance? What birds’ mating behaviours reveal about sexual selection
Birds, Sex & Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin’s Strangest Idea Matt Ridley 4th Estate (2025)At 4 a.m. one...
Publishers trial paying peer reviewers — what did they find?
Trials suggest that offering payment can increase the chance of a researcher agreeing to review, and in some cases speed...
Climate change will send home insurance spiralling. Here’s how to control costs
In January, at least 29 people were killed and more than 18,000 homes and buildings were burnt or destroyed by...
US universities curtail staff, spending as Trump cuts take hold
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge has frozen hiring for non-faculty positions.Credit: Mel Musto/Bloomberg/GettyThe onslaught of US spending cuts...
Matrix-producing neutrophils populate and shield the skin
De Veer, M. J., Kemp, J. M. & Meeusen, E. N. T. The innate host defence against nematode parasites. Parasite...
Stay safe from online hate with these five tips
With papers to write, grants to apply for and students to teach, cybersecurity can be a low priority for scientists....
These frustrated scientists want to leave the United States — do you? Take Nature’s poll
Some scientists in the United States have told Nature that they are considering leaving the country in the wake of...
Our experience of teaching neuroscience in a maximum-security prison
Shai Berman and Tessa Montague need to carry their teaching materials in clear prison-issue bags when they help inmates to...
Ice-hunting Moon lander runs into trouble ― leaving scientists in suspense
The Athena lander touched down in the region around the lunar south pole (pictured) on 6 March as planned, but...
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