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The complex life of the oil industry veteran who proposed the Gaia hypothesis
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World’s largest telescope pauses expansion amid funding crunch
The world’s largest telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which is based in Australia and South Africa, is changing its
We must train specialists in botany and zoology — or risk more devastating extinctions
As a student in China in the late 1980s, I spent several wonderful semesters studying zoology and botany. I vividly
Do AI models produce more original ideas than researchers?
Researchers built an artificial intelligence tool that came up with 4000 novel research ideas in a matter of hours. Credit:
Why aren’t there talks with the Taliban about getting women and girls back into education?
From left to right: Raihana Sattari, Marwa Shinwari and Heela Barakzai, robotics researchers from Afghanistan, who had to move to
Academics say flying to meetings harms the climate — but they carry on
Air travel to attend academic conferences remains widespread although many meeting-goers have reservations about emissions.Credit: Liesa Johannssen/Bloomberg/Getty An overwhelming majority
How we slashed our lab’s carbon footprint
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I make fake eyes for those who need them
“I’m the only ocularist in Uganda. Apart from me, there’s no one in the country to make prosthetic eyes for
Scientists almost have nuclear clocks ticking
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African scientists must not be priced out of mental-health research
Across African nations, an estimated 116 million people are living with mental illness. Yet the causes are poorly understood in