A guide to Nature Index tables
To track research outputs that are relevant to the topic of affordable and clean energy, or, more specifically, the seventh United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), the SDG classifier available in the…
Iconic first image of black hole holds up to scrutiny
Wong, and F. Diakogiannis; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration wowed the world in 2019 with the first picture ever taken of a black hole’s shadow.…
Efficient catalyst-controlled C–H arylation of arenes
1 However, native substrates lack the preinstalled functional handles that ordinarily provide both reactivity and control over the site of reaction. Consequently, despite long-standing interest in directly engaging C–H…
Even giant anteaters in remote Brazil have microplastics in their blood
Researchers measured the concentration of microplastics in the blood of 47 animals: 26 lowland tapirs ( Tapirus terrestris ) and 21 giant anteaters ( Myrmecophaga tridactyla ). The scientists found that, on average, the…
Cacti are severely threatened by drought in a warming world
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Getting a grasp on the global wildlife trade
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Too dry for cacti: extreme droughts could push iconic species to extinction
11:08 Research Highlights Nature: Cholera bacterium’s good deed: inspiring a glue with rare properties Nature: First-of-its-kind planetary wreckage holds clues to our Solar System’s fate 13:41 Testing a new way to define…
Salty grains in Saturn’s outermost ring formed from the slow freeze of plumes from the moon Enceladus
in Enceladus and the Icy Moons of Saturn (eds Schenk, P. M., Clark, R. N., Howett, C. J. A., Verbicer, A. J. & Waite, J. H.) 129–162 (Univ. Arizona Press, 2018). Google Scholar Postberg, F. et al. Nature 558 , 564–568…
DeepMind's ultra-powerful AI for genome mapping wows scientists
This variant had previously confounded researchers because it lies in a ‘gene desert’ nowhere near protein-coding sequences. That discovery had involved gene-editing and other sophisticated molecular biology techniques…
Rattlesnakes have personalities too — to venomous effect
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