As 2019 draws to a close, we once again select Nature’s 10 — ten people who mattered in science this year. The cover image depicts radiation from an astronomical mystery known as a fast radio burst ...

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A 400,000-year-old site excavated in England reveals signs of deliberate fires made using the mineral iron pyrite to produce sparks. The question of where eddies come from is immortalized in verse, ...

Despite the weak agreement seen at the COP30 climate conference, Brazil was right to prioritize discussing the eventual phase-out of fossil fuels. Others must now help to find a way forward.

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The cover shows an artist’s impression of the exoplanet WASP-107b, a Neptune-sized world some 200 light-years (61 parsecs) from Earth in the constellation Virgo. The planet has posed a problem for ...

The cover captures an aerial gathering of Natal long-fingered bats (Miniopterus natalensis). Bats are extraordinary creatures — they are the ...

There are gaps in our understanding of how and why digital misinformation propagates. To help design effective interventions to minimize the spread of falsehoods, researchers need data and ...

Lecture preparations prompt a scientist to poke holes in the ‘gallium anomaly’. Geochemical clues hint that worm-like creatures in the Ediacaran period benefited from symbiosis with bacteria. Study ...

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A fossil from a previously undiscovered species with feathery limbs, unearthed in China, adds to evidence that dinosaurs and birds evolved flight more than once.