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Javier Nion Fieira found that his experiences in elite sport were easier to analyse and process than those in the laboratory.Credit: Diego Blanco & Jonathan Gurr At 2 a.m. on a frosty February morning, I started what I hoped would be the first big experiment of my PhD-dissertation project: collecting eight lung samples from mice…

3D printing is predicted to be one of the fastest-growing technologies this year. Credit: Stenko Vladislav Vitalievich/iStock via Getty Machine learning, blockchain databases and 3D printing will be some of the fastest-growing technologies this year. That’s the prediction of the artificial-intelligence-powered 2026 Momentum 100 list of rapidly emerging technology, released by Australian researchers in December…

You have full access to this article via your institution. A failed experiment shouldn’t mean the end of a project, or affect a researcher’s future grant opportunities.Credit: Getty Last week, Imperial College London, in collaboration with Nature, hosted a conference on a subject that’s rarely talked about in science: failure. The success of a conference…

Perspectives on questions such as the availability of research funding and what leads to impactful science varied widely in the Nature Index survey.Credit: Evgeniy Shkolenko/iStock via Getty A leading research career is influenced by many factors: a researcher’s interests, yes, but also funding conditions, institutional expectations and the often-shifting priorities, policies and attitudes of wider…

You have full access to this article via your institution. Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Stephan Schlamminger (left) and colleague Vincent Lee with the equipment used to measure big G.Credit: R. Eskalis/NIST The results of a decade-long experiment have brought scientists…

RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 22 April 2026 A large and diverse collection of Indigenous American genomes uncovers extensive genetic diversity and a complex history of dispersals, continuity and adaptation across the Americas. The findings reveal the evolutionary processes that shaped Indigenous American populations and address the under-representation of these populations in global genomic research. Source link

Sample description and DNA sequencing In this study, we generated new whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data from 128 Indigenous American individuals representing 45 populations and 28 language families across 8 Latin American countries (Extended Data Fig. 1 and Supplementary Note 1). Whole genomes were sequenced at the Beijing Genomics Institute (China) and Dasa Genômica (Brazil) using BGISEQ-500…