For painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo in Vertumnus (1591), emperor Rudolf II was what he ate.Credit: Giuseppe Arcimboldo/Buyenlarge/GettyEating and Being: A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves Steven Shapin Univ. Chicago Press (2024)In seventeenth-century England, people often commented after a...
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...
By the time you receive this I will be dead. Hopefully not dead dead, but close enough. And for a...
Nature, Published online: 28 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03534-8Four researchers who left Serbia to pursue their careers rely on this group to...
Nature, Published online: 25 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03772-wIn 1984, scientists made a crystalline alloy that had a seemingly impossible arrangement of...
David Posner (at lectern) introduces his plan to bring students from Mexico’s Vasco de Quiroga University to Cambridge, UK, for...
