Nature News
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Strange planet has triple sunsets and a super-long year
World in three-star system also experiences unusual seasons.
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The visualizations transforming biology
Inventive graphic design and abstract models are helping researchers to make sense of a glut of data.
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Bird wings trapped in amber are a fossil first from the age of dinosaurs
Preserved feathers and tissue provide a picture of hatchlings from the Cretaceous.
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Quantum computer makes first high-energy physics simulation
The technique would help address problems that classical computers can’t handle.
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LIGO detects whispers of another black-hole merger
After historic first discovery last September, twin observatories detected gravitational waves again on Boxing Day.
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First rodent found with a human-like menstrual cycle
The spiny mouse could one day aid studies of women’s reproductive problems.
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CRISPR gene-editing system unleashed on RNA
Researchers who discovered a molecular “scissors” for snipping genes have now developed a similar approach for targeting and cutting RNA. The new cutting tool should help researchers better understand RNA’s […]
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1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility
More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist’s experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments. Those are some of the […]
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Biodiversity: Life – a status report
Of all the species that have populated Earth at some time over the past 3.5 billion years, more than 95% have vanished — many of them in spectacular die-offs called […]