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Ancient ‘snowball’ Earth had frigidly briny seas
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT 12 January 2026 Ocean temperatures well below freezing in Earth’s deep-past glacial phases imply some very salty waters.…
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graduates anxious, but optimistic, about the future
Last year, Nature’s careers team spoke to five recent PhD students in North America, Israel and the United Kingdom to…
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how I use penguin faeces to measure contaminants in Antarctica
“In this image, I’m collecting faecal samples from Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) on Horseshoe Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula at…
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Explore 2025 with Leif Penguinson
For five years now, Briefing readers have eagerly awaited Fridays for a chance to put their penguin-hunting skills to the…
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How fasting boosts breast cancer therapy
A hallmark of most breast cancers1 is the expression of a hormone receptor called oestrogen receptor-α (ERα). People with this…
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This science sleuth revealed a retraction crisis at Indian universities
Achal Agrawal had just finished giving a lecture when an enthusiastic undergraduate student approached him with an idea for a…
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Antibodies and T cells join forces for sustained HIV remission
Nature, Published online: 01 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03805-y Two studies suggest that T cells with stem-cell-like properties could work with antibody…
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how to account for the ecological costs of our actions
On Natural Capital: The Value of the World Around Us Partha Dasgupta Witness (2025) An economist might celebrate a nation…
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How COVAX raced to protect the world from COVID-19
Fair Doses: An Insider’s Story of the Pandemic and the Global Fight for Vaccine Equity Seth Berkley Univ. California Press…
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Africa finally has its own drug-regulation agency — and it could transform the continent’s health
After more than a decade of planning, the launch of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) is being celebrated in Mombasa,…
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