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What postdoc ads ask for and what they leave unsaid

Credit: vicky_81/iStock via Getty I did not start reading postdoctoral-researcher job adverts because I wanted to analyse academic-labour hiring practices. I started because I needed a job. As my postdoc in forestry at…

The super El Niño is more than a climate shock – it’s a health one, too

But the threat stretches beyond the immediate impacts of bad weather. El Niño is part of a cycle in Earth’s climate that is linked to warmer than usual waters in the Pacific Ocean. Every few years, it brings droughts or…

Quordle hints and answers for Monday, November 9 (game #1750)

Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still going strong now more than 1,500 games later. It offers a genuine challenge, though, so read on if you need some Quordle hints today — or scroll down…

How to make failure your friend and teacher in science

Kneebone, a former trauma surgeon who how leads a master’s programme in surgical education at Imperial College London, says the road to professional expertise begins with an “apprentice” phase, doing monotonous tasks…

Those white cameras mounted above traffic lights serve a little-known purpose

Automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) are nothing new, but reported abuses have made drivers understandably wary of the cameras made by Flock and other companies, to the point of wanting to find out where they are so…

How academic freedom is changing around the world — by the numbers

The network’s latest annual report documents 382 attacks on academic freedom by state authorities, affecting scholars, students and academic institutions in 59 countries and territories, between July 2025 and June 2026.…

AI has transformed maths — this is how we got here

Each time the spark plug in a scooter engine fires, it produces a short pulse of electromagnetic radiation. The Fourier transform reveals that, mathematically, this signal is a summation of thousands of sine and cosine…

COP31 kicks off as planet faces imminent overshoot of 1.5 °C climate target

The aim of keeping warming within 1.5 °C above pre-industrial temperatures was set out in the 2015 Paris agreement. As tens of thousands of delegates and observers arrive in Antalya, Turkey, for the COP31 meeting, some…

NYT Strands hints and answers for Monday, November 9 (game #981)

Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle , Spelling Bee and Connections – and it's great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints. Want more word-based fun? Then check out…

He spent a year on ‘Mars’: NASA science officer emerges from mock mission

On 31 October, the four emerged from a 158-square-metre, 3D-printed habitat at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, after spending just more than a year inside it for a simulated mission on the red planet . The…