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Brunch with a carnivorous plant

Nature, Published online: 03 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02668-z A meaty menu for a peckish perennial, and a fairground-style festival of physics,

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Huge SpaceX rocket explosion shredded the upper atmosphere

SpaceX’s Starship rocket is the most powerful launch vehicle ever built.Credit: Joe Marino/UPI/Shutterstock The huge explosions that destroyed SpaceX’s Starship

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Probing plant signal processing optogenetically by two channelrhodopsins

Ethics The laparotomy to obtain oocytes from X. laevis was carried out in accordance with the principles of the Basel Declaration

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how to collaborate with non-governmental organizations

Too often, the potential of a biomedical discovery to tackle disease is not fully realized. Perhaps the economic return is

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AI made of jelly ‘learns’ to play Pong — and improves with practice

Pong was first played by humans in the 1970s.Credit: SSPL/Getty Images A basic artificial intelligence (AI) system made of a

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The Amazon is relinquishing its carbon — for a surprising reason

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT 19 August 2024 Degradation of the Amazon’s tree canopy is the main culprit, although the complete clearance of

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Field observations of Ambula tardus on Planet IN-409

Everybody tells you it takes time to adjust to the aliens’ way of life, but you don’t really understand what

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Five ways science is tackling the antibiotic resistance crisis

Johan Paulsson’s interest in antibiotics began with body aches and nausea in August 2021. His illness, which quickly progressed to

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The Taliban ‘took my life’ — scientists who fled takeover speak out

Three years after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, some five million people have left the country, including many of

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Neural circuit underlying asthma reinforces the lung’s role as a sensory organ

RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 07 August 2024 Molecular, anatomical and functional evidence point to a multi-nodal neural circuit that senses allergenic particles