- May 25, 2025
COVID changed our appetite for zombies
The year was 2013, and the release of hotly anticipated zombie-apocalypse video game was on the horizon. The game, called
Why space exploration must not be left to a few powerful nations
The space industry is expanding fast — and its value is set to triple in the next decade, from US$630
Hurricane risk in a changing climate — the role of uncertainty
Economic losses from hurricanes have been growing in the United States and elsewhere. From 1980 to today, hurricanes have accounted
Nature’s guide to the initiatives drawing scientists abroad
The European Research Council is developing new, longer, larger ‘super grants’ to draw the “very best” scientists. The Spanish State
Nature project to encourage early-career researchers in peer review is working
You have full access to this article via your institution. A reviewer of a Nature manuscript can now invite an
planetary scientists outraged over deletion of research records
Over the past several weeks, hundreds of meeting abstracts have quietly vanished from the websites of research conferences organized by
convicted US chemist Charles Lieber moves to Chinese university
Charles Lieber leaves a Boston courthouse in 2020. He has now moved to China.Credit: Charles Krupa/AP Photo via Alamy The
how an Indigenous computer scientist is using AI to preserve threatened languages
Colleagues routinely describe Michael Running Wolf as someone who walks seamlessly between two worlds. As an artificial intelligence (AI) researcher
Why the green-technology race might not save the planet
The world has entered an era of increasing ecological scarcity and rising environmental risks. Since 1970, 75% of terrestrial and
My fight to unlock cannabis and psychedelic drugs for use in medical research
Sue Sisley’s team has grown whole psilocybin-producing mushrooms for clinical trials.Credit: Andrew Neugebauer/STOKE Creative Working scientist profiles This article is