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Huge SpaceX rocket explosion shredded the upper atmosphere
SpaceX’s Starship rocket is the most powerful launch vehicle ever built.Credit: Joe Marino/UPI/Shutterstock The huge explosions that destroyed SpaceX’s Starship
how to stop bad science propagating through the literature
Article retractions have been growing steadily over the past few decades, soaring to a record-breaking figure of nearly 14,000 last
how to collaborate with non-governmental organizations
Too often, the potential of a biomedical discovery to tackle disease is not fully realized. Perhaps the economic return is
Can ageing be stopped? A biologist explains
Download Nature hits the books 22 August 2024 For millennia, humanity has obsessed about halting ageing and, ultimately, preventing death.
Cash for catching scientific errors
Malte Elson is blunt when it comes to science’s ability to self-correct. “The way we currently treat errors doesn’t work,”
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
FDA rejects ecstasy as a therapy: what’s next for psychedelics?
MDMA, also known as ecstasy, was administered in conjunction with psychotherapy during clinical trials.Credit: Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
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
Camera-carrying sea lions map uncharted areas of the ocean
Scientists attached cameras and sensors to small pieces of neoprene that they glued to the sea lions’ backs.Credit: Nathan Angelakis
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