Gastronomic scientist Alessandra Massa, at the Hill-Maini laboratory at Stanford University, holds up a culture of the edible fungus Neurospora intemerdia, grown on brewery waste, and a jar containing savoury miso paste made with this material.Credit: Franklin Lurie Beyond rising seas, displaced communities and disrupted livelihoods, climate change is increasingly threatening the foundations of food…
Environmental engineer Ludmilla Aristilde (right) and her colleagues work on developing biotechnology-led solutions to combat pollution.Credit: Benjamin Barrios-Cerda/Aristilde lab Ludmilla Aristilde has always been aware of how closely tied well-being is to the world around us. Raised in Haiti, she and her family survived two cholera outbreaks stemming from contaminated water. “These were my earliest…
These authors contributed equally: Daeun Jeong, Sara G. Danielli These authors jointly supervised this work: Kristian W. Pajtler, Varun Venkataramani, Mariella G. Filbin Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Boston, MA, USA Daeun Jeong, Sara G. Danielli, Li Jiang, Shashank Katiyar, Costanza Lo Cascio, Sina Neyazi, Carlos Alberto Oliveira de Biagi-Junior, Elsa Couvillon, Sophia Castellani, Maria Pazyra-Murphy, Matthew Mullally, Bernhard…
Nature, Published online: 06 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01077-8 Plans for expansion. Source link
Nature, Published online: 06 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01155-x When the concept of ‘click’ chemistry — highly effective and specific reactions — was first reported, some dismissed it as a gimmick. But it has transformed many fields of research. Source link
The problem Dear Nature, I’m a particle physicist in the third year of my PhD programme in Central Europe. When I began working in academia, I was really motivated, interested and passionate about doing research. I wanted to become a professor and build a successful career in my field. Over the past few years, I’ve…
You have full access to this article via your institution. Colombia’s environment minister Irene Vélez Torres (left) with her Netherlands counterpart Stientje van Veldhoven in Santa Marta, Colombia.Credit: Ivan Valencia/AP Photo/Alamy An important international climate-change initiative was launched last week: more than 50 countries gathered in Santa Marta, Colombia, for the First Conference on Transitioning…
A century before social-media bans and advice to disable device notifications, the inventor and science-fiction writer Hugo Gernsback proposed a more extreme way to avoid distraction: an isolating wooden helmet. Outside influences, he said, were “the greatest difficulty that the human mind has to contend with”. Gernsback’s isolator device — part diving suit, part monastic…
Grants terminations requested by the administration of US President Donald Trump last year disproportionately affected researchers from under-represented groups, a survey suggests.Credit: Loic Venance/AFP via Getty The abrupt termination last year of thousands of research grants by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research, didn’t affect all…
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT 05 May 2026 Woven from light-responsive strips, a tiny sphere trundles across a variety of surfaces when illuminated. Source link