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How I balance my life as a professional surfer and a university researcher

Most of my anxiety came from looking out the window at perfect surfing conditions and realizing I didn’t have much time to finish my experiments and leave while the ‘waves were firing’. Several years on, I am now an…

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…

AI’s energy paradox: will the AI boom strain energy systems or be the source of solutions?

Energy use by US data-centre servers more than tripled between 2014 and 2023 — reaching 4.4% of the nation’s total electricity consumption. This figure is expected to at least double by 2028 1 . However, AI might also…

How to get this Siri camera upgrade for your iPad before its public release

Apple users willing to install beta versions of its OS updates can get their hands on upcoming features sooner than most, as long as they're comfortable contending with the possibility of buggy software or apps breaking.…

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.…

Cacti are severely threatened by drought in a warming world

Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription £19.99 / 30 days cancel any time Learn more Subscribe to this journal Receive 51 print issues and online access…

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…

Retractions of old papers are on the rise: when should bad science be culled?

All of the problems were in papers by Vishwa Jit Gupta, one of India’s most celebrated palaeontologists at the time. More than 10,000 research papers were retracted in 2023 — a new record Gupta was outraged. But further…

Getting a grasp on the global wildlife trade

NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, November 11 (game #1249)

What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle…