NATURE
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Mysterious Oropouche virus is spreading: what you should know
The Southern house mosquito (Culex quinquefasciatus; artificially coloured) can transmit Oropouche virus to humans, but the main vector is the…
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Ancient equine genomes reveal dawn of horse domestication
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 23 August 2024 An analysis of ancient genomes reveals an explosive geographical and demographic spread of modern domestic…
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Blow that whistle at your own risk
Haematologist and whistle-blower Nancy Olivieri has spent more than three decades fighting for scientific integrity and for her patients.Credit: Carlos…
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Field observations of Ambula tardus on Planet IN-409
Everybody tells you it takes time to adjust to the aliens’ way of life, but you don’t really understand what…
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Black holes regulate cool gas accretion in massive galaxies
Cosmology We adopted a Chabrier initial mass function (IMF)31 to estimate star formation rate and assumed cosmological parameters of H0 = 70 km s−1…
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The Taliban ‘took my life’ — scientists who fled takeover speak out
Three years after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, some five million people have left the country, including many of…
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Deepest-ever samples of rock from Earth’s mantle unveiled
A sample of mantle rock viewed under a microscope.Credit: Johan Lissenberg A record-breaking expedition to drill into rocks at the…
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‘Fire clouds’ from super-hot wildfires are on the rise as Earth warms
A suspected arson on 24 July ignited the Park Fire in California, which had exploded to more than 140,000 hectares…
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biologist who shaped genetic engineering and fought discrimination
Credit: National Institutes of Health The US molecular biologist Maxine Singer made discoveries about the role of enzymes in assembling…
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Rhapsodies in green: the poetry of plant biology
Nature, Published online: 30 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02442-1 Poems that bring plant biology to life, and remembering the achievements of the…
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