Earlier this year, J. Mijin Cha received tenure for the second time. Cha had been tenured — given confirmed, permanent employment — at Occidental College, a mainly undergraduate university in Los Angeles, California, before joining the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), a large research institution. Although the two tenure processes were different, she says…
In February, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed a radical rethink of how scientists, physicians and manufacturers develop personalized genetic therapies. The regulator’s suggested introduction of a ‘plausible mechanism pathway’ should increase incentives for drug companies to develop personalized treatments, including gene-editing therapies for rare disorders (see go.nature.com/4mnmgzq). The baby whose life was…
Agent4Science posts contain AI discussions about AI-generated papers. Credit: Vertigo3d/Getty The latest scientific social network is here — but unusually, there’s no room for human users. The Reddit-style site, called Agent4Science, allows purpose-built AI-powered agents to share, debate and discuss research papers. Human researchers can observe the chatter of artificial intelligence, but only the agents…
Researchers caught an African leopard on camera eating bats from a cave in Uganda. It might be the first confirmation that leopards eat live bats.Credit: Bosco Atukwatse/VSPT Kyambura Lion Project When researchers in Uganda set up camera traps to monitor African leopards (Panthera pardus pardus) and spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) in a national park last…
Science is becoming increasingly computational. Experimental data must be logged, cleaned, checked and analysed. Data analysis often involves iterative trial and error using ‘scripting’ programming languages such as Python and R. The outputs of such programs are then included in papers, presentations and grant applications. A typical piece of professional software contains up to 50…
Nature, Published online: 17 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01280-7 PhD students share how they make their doctorate fit into the hours of a standard working week. Plus, male and female brain cells differ in gene activity and a whole new way to produce DNA. Source link
Frank Hemmings collects, catalogues and preserves plant specimens for research.Credit: David Eldridge In the scorching heat and across the rugged landscapes of southeastern Australia, Frank Hemmings has conducted vegetation surveys for more than 27 years. He has collected and documented thousands of plants from grasslands, forests and some of the nation’s driest regions. As a…
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Unfrozen: The Fight for the Future of the Arctic Mia Bennett & Klaus Dodds Yale Univ. Press (2025) From the rising temperatures of the climate crisis to the cooling of relations between Arctic states, metaphors of hot and cold pop up frequently in discussions about the Arctic. Political geographers Mia Bennett and Klaus Dodds put…
David Hertzog and Katherine High were among the winners of this year’s Breakthrough prize.Credit: Dennis R. Wise & Colin Lenton Researchers dedicated to a decades-long quest to measure the magnetic properties of the subatomic muon particle have won one of this year’s US$3 million Breakthrough prizes. The results seemingly confirm the standard model of particle…