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How India rewrote the rules of space travel when it launched its first satellite
The satellite, Aryabhata, provided a huge boost to India’s space programme.Credit: NASA/Alamy In the early hours of 19 April 1975, the mood at the Soviet military launch site of Kapustin Yar — a space test facility north of the Caspian Sea — was heavy with anticipation. Scientists and engineers moved with brisk deliberation, the pre-launch silence was punctuated only by…
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the fascinating insights meteorites can bring us
The Meteorite Hunters: On the Trail of Extraterrestrial Treasures and the Secrets Inside Them Joshua Howgego Oneworld (2025) The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time Helen Gordon Profile (2025) From vacuuming cathedral rooftops to traversing the frozen wastes of Antarctica, people go to great lengths to find the landfall of shooting stars. That is the take-home message of…
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5 charts reveal the power of vaccines
Vaccines have made several deadly diseases a thing of the past.Credit: Christina House/Los Angeles Times/Getty A second unvaccinated child in Texas has died from measles, amplifying fears that the outbreak there could be wider than reported. The death, announced on 6 April, also harkens back to a pre-vaccine past that many Americans have forgotten, when hundreds of children died each…
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Brain implant translates thoughts to speech in an instant
This scan of the brain shows activity in the speech cortex — a part of the frontal lobe involved in speech production.Credit: Montreal Neurological Institute/Science Photo Library A brain-reading implant that translates neural signals into audible speech has allowed a woman with paralysis to hear what she intends to say nearly instantly. Researchers enhanced the device — known as a…
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How to know whether a conference is right for you
Illustration: Sébastien Thibault After coming across a UK conference that sounded interesting, Carme Arnan Ros, a laboratory manager and research technician at the -Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, Spain, was concerned. The event was organized by a private UK company whose name was similar to that of a prestigious university, although they were not related. She couldn’t be sure…
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The early origins of bone-tool manufacturing traditions by hominins 1.5 million years ago
Nature, Published online: 17 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00545-x Excavations at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, reveal evidence of the systematic use of animal bones as a raw material for prehistoric tools. Source link
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Our experience of teaching neuroscience in a maximum-security prison
Shai Berman and Tessa Montague need to carry their teaching materials in clear prison-issue bags when they help inmates to earn undergraduate degrees.Credit: Thomas Barlow Fifty minutes north of Manhattan by train lies Sing Sing Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison for men. Sing Sing is one of the oldest and most notorious prisons in the United States. Its massive stone…
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Tracking gulls to prevent a bird flu pandemic
“In this photo, I’m monitoring gulls near Sandgerði, a small fishing village in southwest Iceland. This area is a volcanic peninsula, and although there’s a lot of precipitation, most of the water passes through the rocks and flows underground to the sea. So the places where fresh water is available, such as the lake in Sandgerði, attract a lot of…
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Trekking across Nepal to bridge its gender gap in the sciences
Babita Paudel travels Nepal to collect soil samples in high-altitude regions such as Annapurna and to run workshops for female scientists’ professional development.Credit: Rajaram Khang Changemakers This Nature Q&A series celebrates people who fight racism in science and who champion inclusion. It also highlights initiatives that could be applied to other scientific workplaces. During her PhD at the Korea Polar…
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Woman in cancer remission for record 19 years after CAR-T immune treatment
A CAR-T cell (orange) has attacks a cancer cell (green), which is starting to contract.Credit: Eye Of Science/Science Photo Library The girl was four years old when she arrived at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston to receive a highly experimental therapy for nerve-cell cancer. Standard treatments had been unable to hold the cancer back. It had spread to her bones,…
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