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Working with the United Nations, scientists hope to establish standards for satellite ‘megaconstellations’ and reduce disruption of astronomical observations.
Alexandra Witze
News 16 Jul 2021
Nature
Scientists are mapping correlations between race, poverty and heat in cities, and suggesting solutions to reduce the dangers.
Volume: 595, P: 349-351
Scientists searching for extraterrestrial life should narrow their hunt to stars and planetary systems that have an occasional view of Earth as it passes in front of the Sun.
News 23 Jun 2021
Investigations at Lund University found the high-ranking pair guilty of bullying, but staff members say stronger action is needed to repair the damage.
Videos of the surprising phenomenon could help researchers to better understand natural ‘dust devils’ blowing across the red planet.
Volume: 594, P: 484
Space agency aims to breathe new life into its Earth-science programme as US President Joe Biden pushes an ambitious climate agenda.
News 07 May 2021
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter successfully hovered for 40 seconds in Mars’s thin atmosphere.
News 19 Apr 2021
US president’s first budget proposal emphasizes applied research and public health, and aims to tackle climate change and racial injustice.
Jeff Tollefson
Amy Maxmen
As the US president announces his advisers and agency heads, Nature’ s guide tracks the appointees who matter most to science.
Nidhi Subbaraman
News 19 Mar 2021
The search for COVID vaccines that can be self-administered, fight new variants and survive the heat. Plus, tear-gland organoids that cry and the winners of the Abel Prize.
Flora Graham
Mars becomes the first inner planet after Earth to have the size of its core estimated with seismology.
No signs of past life have emerged yet, but rocks at the landing site show signs of having been shaped by wind and water.
A whirlwind geological journey in which the past meets the present and the future.
Books & Arts 16 Mar 2021
Despite pandemic disruption, astronomers detected thousands of previously unknown near-Earth asteroids last year.
The NASA spacecraft has also snapped more shots of its surroundings and listened to a Martian wind gust.
News 22 Feb 2021
Having stuck its nail-biting landing, the Perseverance rover will now collect rocks to return to Earth and record Mars sounds for the first time.
Fierce competition between nineteenth century astronomers has inspired our fascination with the red planet over the years. Plus: why scientists think the virus that causes COVID-19 is here to stay.
Emma Stoye
The Perseverance spacecraft, due to land this week, aims to scour Jezero Crater and collect the first rocks from the red planet.
The broken promise that undermines human genome research. Plus, China and UAE missions have both successfully reached Mars, and we are flushing away valuable phosphorus.
Historian Patricia Fara curates caricatures that provide snapshots of social and political debates around the emergence of modern research.
Comments & Opinion 01 Feb 2021
New studies knock down a controversial report observing phosphine in the planet’s atmosphere.
News 28 Jan 2021
US president-elect also elevates the position to the cabinet for the first time.
Scientists seek guidance on exploring frozen caches at the lunar poles responsibly.
Team detects a huge increase and says it could be due to climate change, but others can’t confirm the findings.
News 17 Dec 2020
NASA’s InSight mission yields the first data on the internal structure of a planet other than Earth.
Mars missions, record-breaking wildfires and a room-temperature superconductor are among this year’s top non-COVID stories.
Davide Castelvecchi
The coronavirus pandemic shaped the year in research — from vaccines and treatments to campus shutdowns and virtual meetings.
Ewen Callaway
Heidi Ledford
Instrument platform crashed into the telescope’s dish, irrevocably ending the facility’s role in astronomy.
New satellite image reveals the damage that shut down the facility, ending an era in astronomical observation.
News 19 Nov 2020
Debate continues over controversial report of phosphine in the planet’s atmosphere, as researchers reanalyse data and find a fainter signal.
A sociologist embedded in the agency shows that what gets discovered depends on how scientists collaborate.
Books & Arts 16 Nov 2020
The new president has the opportunity to reverse four years of anti-science policies — but he has a hard road ahead as he inherits a nation divided.
A graphical guide to the research carried out on the International Space Station — and who did it.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s six-figure donation is a step towards addressing racial injustice in the sciences.
News 29 Oct 2020
OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully executes a nail-biting manoeuvre to scoop up rock samples from the asteroid Bennu and send them back to Earth.
The coronavirus pandemic, climate change and space exploration are among the issues that Biden will influence if he wins the upcoming US election.
Heat waves, winds and thin ice contribute to a ‘new normal’ in the north’s climate.
News 22 Sept 2020
Fires are releasing record levels of carbon dioxide, partly because they are burning ancient peatlands that have been a carbon sink.
Most detailed report yet about the impact of giant satellite clusters says damage to observations is unavoidable — and offers mitigation strategies.
News 26 Aug 2020
One-time head of the US National Science Foundation Rita Colwell speaks out on sexism — and how her experiences as a leader in science can inform pandemic response.
Perseverance will stow away rocks for eventual delivery to Earth, and will listen for Martian sounds for the first time.
As NASA prepares to launch the first spacecraft that will collect samples from Mars, Nature looks at back at missions that have grabbed extraterrestrial material.
A three minute guide to why 2020 is the year of Mars launches.
Spain launches the largest test yet of no-strings-attached income — but it’s not truly universal. Plus: how group testing could transform the hunt for coronavirus cases, and PhD students in Australia face financial meltdown.
As three nations prepare to send spacecraft to Mars, a planetary scientist offers her personal tour of those who led the way. By Alexandra Witze
Books & Arts 09 Jul 2020
The United States, China and the United Arab Emirates will soon launch missions to a notoriously dangerous destination for spacecraft.
Smriti Mallapaty
Elizabeth Gibney
Top epidemiologist Jayaprakash Muliyil says we don’t yet know the true scale of the epidemic in India. Plus, CRISPR wreaks chromosomal mayhem in human embryos and why boring is good for two nearby exoplanets.
A nearby red dwarf doesn’t emit flares or harmful radiation — so its planets might have atmospheres.
Systemic racism, sexual harassment and institutional bias permeate a film about three female scientists, who have survived and thrived.
Books & Arts 24 Jun 2020
Latest action sows anxiety and confusion across the US scientific workforce.