How South Africa can move on from power cuts
South Africa is caught in an energy bind. From sunlight to wind and biomass, the country has an abundance of...
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biologist who shaped genetic engineering and fought discrimination
Credit: National Institutes of Health The US molecular biologist Maxine Singer made discoveries about the role of enzymes in assembling...
Immunological memory diversity in the human upper airway
Sette, A. & Crotty, S. Immunological memory to SARS‐CoV‐2 infection and COVID‐19 vaccines. Immunol. Rev. 310, 27–46 (2022).Article CAS PubMed ...
AI is vulnerable to attack. Can it ever be used safely?
In 2015, computer scientist Ian Goodfellow and his colleagues at Google described what could be artificial intelligence’s most famous failure....
Could crabs be conscious, can you beat hypochondria and more: top reads for summer
MarginlandsArati Kumar-Rao Pan Macmillan (2023)Climate change will hit hardest the people living in the world’s most fragile landscapes. In Marginlands,...
China–US research collaborations are in decline — this is bad news for everyone
Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology in the US and Tianjin University in China collaborated to create the world’s first...
botanists will vote on whether to change them
George Hibbert, an eighteenth-century English merchant who profited from the slave trade and fought abolition, lends his name to a...
What Twisters gets right — and wrong — about tornado science
When Hollywood producers showed up a few years ago at Sean Waugh’s office, he couldn’t wait to show them his...
Glutamate acts on acid-sensing ion channels to worsen ischaemic brain injury
AnimalsWild-type C57BL/6J mice were purchased from Vital River company (China) and housed in groups, in the animal facility at Shanghai...
‘thrilling’ play shows fight for landmark climate treaty
Kyoto Dir . Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK 18 June to 13 Jul 2024Climate change poses...
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