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Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Nov. 7, 2024

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‘Nature Magazine – November 6, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Outside Influence’ – Exploring the contribution extrachromosomal DNA makes to cancer….

Naked mole rats vanquish genetic ghosts — and achieve long life

Comparison of the hairless animals’ genomes with those of several other mammals shows low activity of certain sequences.

The midlife crisis is not universal

Study of thousands of people in rural communities shows that many do not experience a slump in well-being during their forties and fifties.

The seas are on the rise — and that surge is accelerating

Sea-surface data show that the average sea-level rise in 2023 was more than double that in 1993.

Hidden wonders: laser data reveal a dense network of ancient Maya settlements

Survey pinpoints pyramids, rural settlements and a large city in an unstudied stretch of Mexico.

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Research Preview: Nature Magazine-October 31, 2024

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‘Nature Magazine – October 30, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Spatial Awareness’ – Cancer cell atlases explore the landscape of tumour evolution…

Atomic smash-ups hold promise of record-breaking elements

Laboratory collisions that create the superheavy element livermorium could help scientists to discover new elements.

This plankton balloons in size to soar upwards through the water

A single-celled alga takes water into a bladder, allowing it to migrate to the sea’s sunlit surface zone.

Giant Turkish quake shifted the ground hundreds of kilometres away

The deadly earthquake led to unexpectedly large deformations some 700 kilometres from the epicentre.

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Preview: MIT Technology Review – November 2024

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MIT Technology Review (October 23, 2024): The Food issue November/December 2024 – Is technology helping—or harming—our food supply? Featuring: The ominous rise of superweeds, the quest to grow food on Mars, and the surprising ways your refrigerator may be making your food less nutritious. Plus robots that do experiments, jumping spiders, digital forestry, and The AI Hype Index.

The quest to figure out farming on Mars

white line drawing of an agricultural scene with orchard, barn, crops and farm animals drawn over a photo of the Martian landscape

If we’re going to live on Mars we’ll need a way to grow food in its arid dirt. Researchers think they know a way.

These companies are creating food out of thin air

Exploded view of a burger bun with lettuce, tomato, onion and a cloud floating in a blue sky

A new crop of biotech startups are working on an alternative to alternative protein.

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Research Preview: Science Magazine-October 18, 2024

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‘Science Magazine – October 17, 2024: The new issue features ‘The Stakes for Science’ – What the next president could mean for research…

Most meteorites traced to three space crackups

Young asteroid families seed more than 70% of extraterrestrial rocks found on the planet

Why does COVID-19 vaccine protection quickly wane?

New insights on cells behind long-lived antibody production could spur better vaccines

Are implantable, living pharmacies within reach?

Cell-based drug factories could produce therapies on demand inside patients

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Research Preview: Nature Magazine-October 17, 2024

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‘Nature Magazine – October 17, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Rock Family Tree’ – The ancestry and origin of the most common meteorites..

Kids in the classroom flow like water vapour

Young children in the playground behave like molecules in a gas, but kids undergo a phase change in a more structured setting.

Evidence of dead people posed on dead horses found in ancient tomb

A royal burial site linked to the fearsome Scythian equestrian culture contains evidence of ‘spectral riders’ described in Classical account.

Sewage lurks in coastal waters — often unnoticed by widely used test

Global survey finds human faecal contamination in at least one sample from all 18 cities tested.

Two comb jellies fuse their bodies and then act as one

The easy synchronization suggests that an individual jelly does not distinguish its tissue

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Research Preview: Science Magazine – Oct. 11, 2024

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‘Science Magazine – October 10, 2024: The new issue features ‘Graphene at 20’ – New forms, and a brighter future, for the storied material…

El Niño fingered as likely culprit in record 2023 temperatures

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Research suggests swings in Pacific Ocean can account for planet’s sudden and perplexing temperature jump

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Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Oct. 10, 2024

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‘Nature Magazine – October 9, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Cold Comfort’ – Permafrost helps protect rivers from errosian and migration..

Hundreds of methane super-sources pinpointed in satellite data

Algorithm homes in on wetlands and industrial sites linked to high emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas.

Baby sea turtles ‘swim’ up from buried nests to the open air

Turtle hatchlings, which can begin life up to a metre deep in sand, point their heads towards the surface and make their way out onto the beach.

How a potent immune therapy loses its punch against a blood cancer

Therapeutic T cells used to treat acute myeloid leukaemia secrete proteins that impair the cells’ own ability to attack cancer.

A ‘Swiss army knife’ microscope that doesn’t break the bank

The parts of a 3D-printed device can be changed out, allowing for versatility as well as ultrahigh resolution.

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Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Oct. 3, 2024

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‘Nature Magazine – October 2, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Wiring Diagram’ – A complete map of neuronal connections in an adult fruit fly’s brain…

Why cannibal queens make a meal of fungus-ridden larvae

Ant larvae infected with a pathogenic fungus had better watch out for Mum.

Bronze Age clash was Europe’s oldest known interregional battle

Artefacts found in modern-day Germany suggest that northern and southern peoples clashed in the Tollense Valley millennia ago.

Mathematicians discover new class of shape seen throughout nature

‘Soft cells’ — shapes with rounded corners and pointed tips that fit together on a plane — feature in onions, molluscs and more.

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Research Preview: Science Magazine – Sept. 27, 2024

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‘Science Magazine – September 19, 2024: The new issue features ‘Worth The Effort’ – Removing derelict fishing gear reduces monk seal entanglement rates…

Doomsday delayed at vulnerable Antarctic glacier

Thwaites collaboration finds glacier has stabilized somewhat—in the short term

Rare photos reveal North Korea’s nuclear program

Nation appears to have upgraded its bombmaking capacity, experts say

When the Mediterranean dried to a salty crust, life was devastated

Tens of thousands of fossils detail the sea’s dramatic loss and eventual rebound

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Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Sept. 26, 2024

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‘Nature Magazine – September 18, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Hostile Takeover’ – Parasitic wasp targets adult fruit flies to host its offspring…