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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

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This ancient pathogen became deadlier when humans started wearing wool

Wool garments provide a cozy home for the eggs of body lice, which spread the bacterium Borrelia recurrentis.Credit: Kathy deWitt/Alamy

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Mother–infant bonds in wild chimpanzees resemble those of humans

The bonds of affection between human mothers and their children are crucial for infant well-being. This suggests that such bonds

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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

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My PhD adviser was fired and I was collateral damage. I learnt how to build resilience into graduate school

I remember clearly the afternoon that I was accepted as a PhD student in my dream laboratory: the Antarctic Research

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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

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Blocking a key node in cancer signalling unlocks therapeutic potential

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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

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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

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A forensic investigator of glacier change

“In this picture, I’m visiting Steindalsbreen, a glacier in the Lyngen Alps, just east of Tromsø in Norway, where I’m