Nature News
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UK mapped out by genetic ancestry
Researchers have found genetic signatures among Britons that betray their historical roots in particular locales of the United Kingdom, leading to the finest-scale map of genetic variation yet created. The […]
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Mercury seen as never before
In its final weeks, the MESSENGER mission reveals fresh details about the planet’s scorched surface.
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Conflict resolution: Wars without end
The world is full of bloody conflicts that can drag on for decades. Some researchers are trying to find resolutions through complexity science.
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El Niño arrives later and weaker than expected
Long-awaited shift in tropical Pacific will have little effect on weather patterns.
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Slick idea proposed to stretch water supplies
In drought-ridden US, water managers consider using a coating one molecule thick to reduce evaporation from reservoirs.
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Physicists make ‘weather forecasts’ for economies
The development of some countries is as predictable as steady winds, but for others it is more chaotic, physicists find.
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Star buzzed Solar System during human prehistory
Faint star with even fainter companion came close enough to perturb comets in the distant Oort cloud some 70,000 years ago.
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Jupiter glimpsed as aliens would see it
Astronomers have observed Jupiter for centuries. But a study that looks at the gas giant as if it were an exoplanet could help to make more reliable interpretations of the […]
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European languages linked to migration from the east
Large ancient-DNA study uncovers population that moved westwards 4,500 years ago.