Elizabeth Gibney

2 days ago | nature.com | Elizabeth Gibney

Africa’s first continent-wide space agency, the African Space Agency (AfSA), which was inaugurated in April, is looking to secure funding as its first projects get underway. AfSA is an initiative of the 55-member African Union (AU) and is headquartered in Cairo.It was established to coordinate the work of Africa’s existing efforts in space — more than 20 African countries have space programmes.

2 days ago | nature.com | Elizabeth Gibney

Europe’s beleaguered ExoMars rover is one of several international missions whose future looks bleak owing to unprecedented cuts to US science funding proposed by US President Donald Trump’s administration. Last year, NASA agreed to provide both launch and landing gear for ExoMars’s Rosalind Franklin rover after the European Space Agency (ESA) cut ties with its former partner, the Russian space agency Roscosmos, over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

1 week ago | nature.com | Shamini Bundell |Nick J. Howe |Elizabeth Gibney

Download the Nature Podcast 28 May 2025In this episode:00:33 Was a boom in papers driven by AI? A spike in papers formulaically analysing a public data set has sparked worries that AI is being used to generate low-quality and potentially misleading analyses.

2 weeks ago | booboone.com | Elizabeth Gibney

New Contacts Let You See Infrared Light-Even with Your Eyes ClosedStraight out of science fiction, these contact lenses convert infrared light into visible light that humans can seeBy Elizabeth Gibney & Nature magazine Humans have a new way of seeing infrared light, without the need for clunky night-vision goggles. Researchers have made the first contact lenses to convey infrared vision - and the devices work even when people have their eyes closed.

2 weeks ago | nature.com | Elizabeth Gibney |Shamini Bundell

These contact lenses give people infrared vision — even with their eyes shut Ever thought about having super-human vision? Researchers in China have developed a way to make contact lenses that convert infrared wavelengths into visible light. It’s based on nanoparticles embedded in the lenses that let participants see infrared LED lights and invisible messages.