- September 13, 2025
Why we launched Denmark’s second Young Academy (and what’s different about it)
YATSI fellows visiting NKT Photonics in Birkerød, Denmark.Credit: Tom Jersø/Danish Academy of Technical Sciences As early-career researchers navigate increasingly complex
Head start: fossil clues about how bodies evolved from two-fold to five-fold symmetry
Nature, Published online: 09 September 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02818-x How the five-fold symmetrical bodies of starfish and other echinoderms evolved is a
Different flames
“Fire day! Fire day!” Roger chanted, the other kids joining in. Elo shrank in her seat. She’d already dreaded today’s
Inside a mosquito factory
There’s an unusual factory in Curitiba, Brazil. It’s producing mosquitos by the millions, all to combat the diseases these insects
Clarity or accuracy — what makes a good scientific image?
Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History Anika Burgess W. W.
Why scientists are flocking to Substack
Adapted from Filo/Getty Like many epidemiologists during the COVID-19 pandemic, Katelyn Jetelina turned to social media to help keep people
Repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking
Credit: Patricia de Melo Moreira/AFP via Getty Long-term exposure to extreme heat events accelerates the body’s ageing process and increases
Net zero needs AI — five actions to realize its promise
In 2024, the global average annual temperature exceeded 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels for the first time. Greenhouse-gas emissions are rising,
How citizen science can help to solve the global freshwater crisis
We are living through a global freshwater crisis: in 2014, humanity used five times as much water as it did
Watch a human embryo implant itself — with brute force
A microscopic view of a nine-day-old human embryo shows a protein found in embryonic stem cells in green, developing tissue