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Book Review |
Recycled sewage, public health and the memory of the world: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Futures |
Explaining novel scientific concepts to people whose technical acumen does not extend to turning it off, then turning it on again
Guided by the light.
- Joel Glover
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Book Review |
From multiverses to cities: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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News Q&A |
The science of 3 Body Problem: what’s fact and what’s fiction?
Nature spoke to the sci-fi programme’s adviser and two other researchers about the portrayal of PhD scientists and their technologies.
- Sumeet Kulkarni
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Career Feature |
Breaking ice, and helicopter drops: winning photos of working scientists
Nature’s annual photography competition attracted stunning images from around the world, including two very different shots featuring the Polarstern research vessel.
- Jack Leeming
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Book Review |
Dogwhistles, drilling and the roots of Western civilization: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Career News |
Londoners see what a scientist looks like up close in 50 photographs
Nature’s Where I Work images are being exhibited in the UK capital until June.
- Jack Leeming
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Book Review |
Wild women and restoring public trust: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Futures |
The real time-travel paradox was the friends we made along the way
Life at the cutting edge.
- Rodrigo Culagovski
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Book Review |
Verbose robots, and why some people love Bach: Books in Brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Career Feature |
The neuroscientist formerly known as Prince’s audio engineer
Susan Rogers worked with the legendary singer-songwriter before earning a PhD in her 50s on auditory memory and how we listen to music throughout life.
- Anne Gulland
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News Q&A |
Meet the real-life versions of Dune’s epic sandworms
A Dune-loving worm palaeontologist makes the case that worms have been just as important on Earth as they are in the blockbuster film.
- Julian Nowogrodzki
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Book Review |
The enigmas of language and immunology, and other reads: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Book Review |
The mysteries of seaweeds and stars, and other reads: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Futures |
Welcome aboard the Silva family historic spaceside attraction tour
A trip of a lifetime.
- Carol Scheina
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Book Review |
It’s time to admit that genes are not the blueprint for life
The view of biology often presented to the public is oversimplified and out of date. Scientists must set the record straight, argues a new book.
- Denis Noble
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Book Review |
A forgotten Aztec scholar and more: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Book Review |
Gripped by dinosaurs, and a unified theory of behaviour: Books in Brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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The handwriting of the greats, and solutions that make things worse: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Career Column |
How Dark Souls and Darth Revan helped me to make sense of my professorship
John Tregoning compares academia to role-playing video games as a way to discuss how the choices we make can affect the paths we take.
- John Tregoning
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Book Review |
Prebunking propaganda, and how to live well: 2023’s best of Books in brief
Connoisseur Andrew Robinson gives ten of his favourite tomes from the year a more expansive review.
- Andrew Robinson
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Book Review |
How to parent AI, and climate change vs democracy: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Nature Podcast |
Navigating planets, plays and prejudice — a conversation with Aomawa Shields
The astronomer joins us to talk about her memoir Life on Other Planets.
- Benjamin Thompson
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Book Review |
Writing dissected, and big answers to simple questions: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Nature Careers Podcast |
How to create compelling scientific data visualizations
Start with pen and paper, keep things simple, do your coding at the end, say data visualization specialists.
- Julie Gould
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Nature Careers Podcast |
How ChatGPT and sounds from space brought a ‘luminous jelly’ to life
Engineer-turned-artist Diana Scarborough and inorganic chemist Anna Melekhova describe how their art–science collaboration gave voice and form to a new material.
- Julie Gould
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Essay |
How AI is expanding art history
From identifying disputed artworks to reconstructing lost masterpieces, artificial intelligence is enriching how we interpret our cultural heritage.
- David G. Stork
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Book Review |
Why genes mean less than you think, and other reads: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
- Andrew Robinson
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Nature Careers Podcast |
Scientific illustration: striking the balance between creativity and accuracy
A misleading image in a medical textbook could have life and death implications, but some disciplines can deploy myth and metaphor to convey their science through art.
- Julie Gould
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Career Q&A |
As an artist-scientist, ‘I’m obsessed with pigments’
Biochemist Sierra Weir explores local ecosystems around Pittsburgh for art and inspiration.
- Robin Donovan
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Backdoor
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