Precise timekeeping helps us in our daily lives: from pinpointing your precise location with GPS to synchronising financial deals to the millisecond, and physicists are also seeking ever more accurate measurements of time, as super-accurate clocks could help make planet-sized...
Download the 27 December long read podcastMarc Abrahams created the Ig Nobel prizes in 1991, after years of collecting examples...
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At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a hero was born: Leif Penguinson, a Rockhopper penguin on a mission to...
For painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo in Vertumnus (1591), emperor Rudolf II was what he ate.Credit: Giuseppe Arcimboldo/Buyenlarge/GettyEating and Being: A History...
As climate change and artificial intelligence (AI) reshape the world, some say that reality is starting to look a lot...
Human hairs sprout from follicles, which contain stem cells that are sensitive to dietary changes (artificially coloured).Credit: Dr Keith Wheeler/SPLA...
Increasingly, agricultural scientists in Asia and Africa are using the gene-editing tool CRISPR to develop disease-resistant, high-yield crop varieties. Many,...
Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli has presented evidence that her lab has not worked with close relatives of SARS-CoV-2.Credit: Johannes Eisele/AFP...
Nature, Published online: 04 December 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03846-9The discovery that peptides from myelin proteins in the brain help the immune system’s...
