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A powerful, winter-like storm is expected to sweep through the Rockies next week, bringing broad accumulating snowfall that will be a pleasant sight for snow enthusiasts and benefit ski resorts early in the season. Instead of inches, snowfall totals might be reported in feet. (Photo : Francesco Ungaro) Some of the greatest snowfall accumulations are

NEWS 08 October 2021 Heart-inflammation risk from Pfizer COVID vaccine is very low Two studies from Israel quantify the risk of myocarditis following the Pfizer–BioNTech shot, with one suggesting the chance of developing the condition is about one in 50,000. Smriti Mallapaty Smriti Mallapaty View author publications You can also search for this author in

According to research, daily meat intake in the United Kingdom has decreased by 17% in the previous decade. However, this decline is not occurring rapidly enough to achieve a crucial national goal. The goal is to decrease our diets’ environmental effects. The National Food Strategy has established this objective based on an assessment of the whole

SPOTLIGHT 08 October 2021 The wearable device that could help to detect cancer Xinge Yu hopes to patent a wearable device that measures tissue stiffness to detect serious illnesses. Sarah O’Meara 0 Sarah O’Meara Sarah O’Meara is a freelance journalist based in London. View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed

NEWS 08 October 2021 Researchers voice dismay at all-male science Nobels All seven winners of this year’s science prizes were men. Some say this shows a disappointing lack of progress towards diversifying the awards. Katharine Sanderson 0 Katharine Sanderson Katharine Sanderson is a freelance journalist based in Cornwall, UK. View author publications You can also

Local media said sandstorms that are unexpectedly powerful have claimed the lives of at least six people in Sao Paulo in recent weeks. This sandstorm was triggered by severe drought in southeastern Brazil. (Photo : Getty Images) Deadly Sandstorms in Brazil Across the countryside, scenes of massive orange dust clouds booming together with winds of

Download PDF After the flush of discovery, after the headlines, after the pronouncements of our glorious new future, after the statements to the UN and the press and the soaring language about “all humanity”, after the papers have been published, the prizes awarded, the careers minted, the actual business of alien contact isn’t glamorous. It

The number and intensity of extreme weather events fueled by climate change that ravaged not just Australia, but many other regions of the world in the 2019-2020 era were unprecedented: massive fires, high heat, powerful cyclones, and devastating floods. The effects of severe weather on our health and well-being are becoming more pronounced. Nearly 500

CAREER COLUMN 08 October 2021 Eight career tips from Nobel Laureates Stefano Sandrone’s Nobel Life features interviews with 24 prizewinners on everything from handling rejection to seizing the moment. Sarah O’Meara 0 Sarah O’Meara Sarah O’Meara is a journalist based in London. View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed  Google

NEWS 08 October 2021 Vanishing rainforest and how to catalogue brain cells — the week in infographics Nature highlights three key infographics from the week in science and research. Share on Twitter Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Facebook Share via E-Mail Share via E-Mail Amazon under threat Indigenous territories, long a bulwark

While sitting in their kitchen, Joey and Scott Bailey wondered how they’ll get through the coming months. “Just regular grass hay that we’d pay $30 a bale for, folks are paying $150 a bale for it, and they’re going 250 miles to get it,” Scott adds. Worrying Locals (Photo : Photo by Jeff Vanuga/USDA Natural Resources

NEWS 08 October 2021 Scientists welcome malaria vaccine approval, but nod to tough road ahead The fact it has a modest efficacy and requires a complex regimen of doses, mean ample funding and clear communication will be crucial to success. Amy Maxmen Amy Maxmen View author publications You can also search for this author in

A new study discovered that some invasive species which are not native to a certain region can disturb lakes until it gets to the point of rapid ecosystem collapse, polluting drinking water, as well as water for aquaculture, and recreation.  (Photo : Getty Images) Invasive Species   Human activity and climate change are prompting invasive non-indigenous

NEWS 07 October 2021 Climate change, science and COP26: have your say As countries prepare to negotiate over climate action at the COP26 summit, Nature takes readers’ temperature and questions. Jeff Tollefson Jeff Tollefson View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed  Google Scholar Share on Twitter Share on Twitter Share

EDITORIAL 07 October 2021 Young people’s mental health is finally getting the attention it needs The COVID-19 pandemic, a UNICEF report and a review of the latest research all highlight the urgent need for better prevention and treatment of youth anxiety and depression. Share on Twitter Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Facebook

A scientist discovered a weird tree in the Amazon jungle in 1973 that was unlike anything he’d ever seen before. It was around 20 feet tall and had small orange fruits in the shape of paper lanterns. (Photo : Wikimedia Commons) New Discovery The scientist took samples of the plant’s leaves and fruits, but all

NEWS 06 October 2021 Real-world data show that filters clean COVID-causing virus from air An inexpensive type of portable filter efficiently screened SARS-CoV-2 and other disease-causing organisms from hospital air. Tosin Thompson Tosin Thompson View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed  Google Scholar Share on Twitter Share on Twitter Share

On Sunday, there were more than 40 reports of a blazing streak from space. Around 4:30 a.m. CDT, the American Meteor Society (AMS) received more than 40 reports from three states, mostly in the Denver region (5:30 a.m. EDT; 1030 GMT). The meteor was seen at least as far south as Santa Fe, New Mexico

Toxic algae are likely to begin blooming more frequently in Arctic waters as the climate and the ocean warm1.

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SPOTLIGHT 06 October 2021 China’s data-driven dream to overhaul health care Collaborations between AI researchers and China’s medical workers are helping to combat diseases such as diabetes and COVID-19. Sara O’Meara 0 Sara O’Meara Sara O’Meara is a freelance journalist based in London. View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed

Is it possible for dragonflies to migrate thousands of miles across the Indian Ocean, from India through the Maldives to Africa, and return again? (Photo : Getty Images) Globe Skimmer Dragonfly Led by Lund University in Sweden, an international research team has made use of models and simulations in order to discover if there is

NEWS 06 October 2021 Francis Collins to step down at NIH: scientists assess his legacy After 12 years at the helm of the top biomedical research agency, the geneticist will return to running his lab by year’s end. Nidhi Subbaraman Nidhi Subbaraman View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed  Google

In a literal sense, the preserved trilobites, which were initially investigated by amateur paleontologists half a century ago, gave researchers with a completely new picture of the world. In the early 1970s, radiographs of ancient arthropods were reexamined, and eye structures were discovered that had never been ever seen in an animal before or since.

CORRESPONDENCE 05 October 2021 Sports concussions: sex differences in outcome are not a biological given Christina L. Master  ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6717-4270 0 , Kristy Arbogast  ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1694-4562 1 & Steven Broglio 2 Christina L. Master Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed  Google Scholar Kristy

CORRESPONDENCE 05 October 2021 Fund natural-history museums, not de-extinction Corrie S. Moreau  ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1139-5792 0 & Jessica L. Ware  ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4066-7681 1 Corrie S. Moreau Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA. View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed  Google Scholar Jessica L. Ware American Museum of Natural History, New York

A large number of “rogue” paddleboarders and kayakers are threatening a bird sanctuary island in Northumberland which harbors the rarest nesting seabird in Britain and these humans are causing major disturbances. (Photo : Getty Images) Human Disturbance The site manager of Coquet Island, Dr Paul Morrison, said in his 37 years of doing the job

NEWS 05 October 2021 COVID vaccines cut the risk of transmitting Delta — but not for long People who receive two COVID-19 jabs and later contract the Delta variant are less likely to infect their close contacts than are unvaccinated people with Delta. Smriti Mallapaty 0 Smriti Mallapaty Smriti Mallapaty is a senior reporter in

Researchers have succeeded in developing a model used in monitoring the pathways and fate of plastic debris in the Mediterranean Sea from sources situated on land. (Photo : Getty Images) Plastic Pollution They reveal that it is possible for plastic debris to be monitored across the Mediterranean, from beaches and surface waters to underneath the

WHERE I WORK 04 October 2021 The Māori meeting house that’s also a research lab Ocean Mercier researches how Indigenous knowledge and Western science can help resolve environmental issues. James Mitchell Crow 0 James Mitchell Crow James Mitchell Crow is a freelance writer in Melbourne, Australia. View author publications You can also search for this

NEWS 04 October 2021 BepiColombo gets first close-up look at Mercury The European and Japanese mission performed the first of six slingshot manoeuvres around the planet. It will ultimately insert two probes into orbit in 2025. Davide Castelvecchi Davide Castelvecchi View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed  Google Scholar Share

An 8-year-old girl has already made an impressive opinion on the solar system even though she has stayed on planet Earth not too long. (Photo : Getty Images) World’s Youngest Astronomer Nicole “Nicolinha” Oliveira who is from Brazil has been nicknamed the “world’s youngest astronomer.”  In Nicolinha’s recent interview with AFP, she explained that she

Robot challenge. Eight teams competed in the final of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge, a competition run by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency that put autonomous robots through their paces mapping, navigating and searching underground courses designed to simulate real-life search-and-rescue scenarios. Here, the Human Supervisor for the CSIRO Data61 team — which included

After disappearing for more than five months around the UK and Ireland, observers feared for Wally the walrus whereabouts. After about three weeks at sea, the celebrity walrus was rediscovered in Iceland on Sunday, looking skinnier but getting closer to his Arctic home. Wally was first spotted a few weeks ago by fishermen at the

CAREER Q&A 01 October 2021 How local communities helped polar scientists during the pandemic Erica Gillis describes the strong connections with residents that helped her colleagues keep working when they couldn’t travel. Nikki Forrester 0 Nikki Forrester Nikki Forrester is a science journalist based in Davis, West Virginia. View author publications You can also search

NEWS 01 October 2021 NASA won’t rename James Webb telescope — and astronomers are angry The agency found no evidence that the flagship observatory’s namesake was involved in anti-LGBT+ activities, but some say that Webb bears responsibility. Alexandra Witze Alexandra Witze View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed  Google Scholar

According to a new study, the Earth’s brightness has decreased due to warming ocean waters. (Photo : Getty Images) Researchers utilized decades of observations of earthshine-light reflected from Earth that lights the Moon’s surface-along with satellite measurements to discover that Earth’s reflectivity, or albedo, has decreased significantly during the last two decades. Earth’s Brightness (Photo

Download PDF It was the ants, first of all. Little sugar ants, nothing stinging or biting. Not an insect you’d notice on their own — although they so rarely showed up on their own that it was moot. There was a little trail of them, tiny, innocuous, into everything. Into all your food, into your

The record-breaking blazes of 2021 wildfire season resulted in a lot of widespread destruction, but AccuWeather experts reveal that the economic damage estimate is very different from that of previous years. (Photo : Getty Images) Total Damage For 2021 Wildfire Season  There’s nothing like a friendly wildfire season. Every year, thousands of structures are severely

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Data reporting No statistical methods were used to predetermine sample size.  Data collection was performed by independent investigators. Prior to data analysis, all experiments were randomized and analysed by independent blinded observers. Analysis of human and macaque transcriptomic data Developing human and macaque brain RNA-seq data (counts file) with the metadata information were obtained from

Rough surf and rip currents caused by Hurricane Sam, which is anticipated to spin over 1,000 miles out to sea this weekend, may pose a greater threat to Atlantic beaches from New Jersey to Florida. As a storm system breezes over the area, weather conditions will worsen in the mid-Atlantic and southern Atlantic coasts next

Some 3% of babies are born with missing or unusually shaped body parts. The origins of most such disabilities are mysterious, but researchers have now traced a congenital syndrome that causes changes in multiple organs to a deficiency in a single protein1. Access options Access through your institution Change institution Buy or subscribe Subscribe to

Scientists from a recent study had discovered that commonly prescribed anti-depressant drugs can halt growth of cancer cells in mice. When combined with immunotherapy, these medication increases survival rates of rodents suffering from pancreatic and colon cancers, and even capable of ‘completely’ eliminating tumor growth in up to a third of cases. (Photo : Photo

China’s gross domestic product suffered a loss of nearly 1% in 2019, after officials culled millions of pigs infected with a lethal virus1. Access options Access through your institution Change institution Buy or subscribe Subscribe to Journal Get full journal access for 1 year 199,00 € only 3,90 € per issue Subscribe Tax calculation will

NEWS 01 October 2021 Sleeping flies and climate anxiety — the week in infographics Nature highlights three key infographics from the week in science and research. Share on Twitter Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Facebook Share via E-Mail Share via E-Mail The kids are not OK Climate change is causing distress, anger

According to a new study, despite their commitments to address the climate problem, several of America’s most renowned corporations, including Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Disney, are supporting business groups that are blocking major climate legislation. (Photo : Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) A slew of corporate lobbying groups and organizations have banded together to fight

NEWS 01 October 2021 China’s clampdown on fake-paper factories picks up speed As part of a misconduct crackdown, Chinese funders are penalizing researchers who commission sham journal articles from ‘paper mills’, but some say the measures still don’t go far enough. Holly Else Holly Else View author publications You can also search for this author

The newest tropical storm of the 2021 hurricane formed over the eastern Atlantic on Wednesday afternoon, earning Victor’s second-to-last designation on the initial list. Tropical Depression 20 had been assigned to the system, which formed Wednesday morning before swiftly developing throughout the day. It was spotted late Wednesday morning a few hundred miles south of