Flora Graham

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Daily briefing: Mysterious Taiwan fossil is Denisovan

1 week ago | nature.com | Flora Graham

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. How to tackle the PhD mental-health crisisMental-health issues among early-career researchers seem to be widespread and now, driven by a lack of support at their institutions, graduate students and postdocs have begun building their own movements to find solutions.
Daily briefing: Tonka bean trees survive lightning strikes that kill their competitors

2 weeks ago | nature.com | Flora Graham

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Does US science have a future in Antarctica? Scientists say that changes under the Trump administration are undermining plans for US research in Antarctica, from penguin surveys to urgent work to understand the continent’s melting ice. The country has three research stations on the icy continent, which deliver groundbreaking scientific insights and a hefty dose of soft power.
Daily briefing: The physicist behind baseball’s new ‘torpedo’ bat

2 weeks ago | nature.com | Flora Graham

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Big prize for obesity-drug pioneersFive scientists who contributed to the development of the blockbuster weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy have picked up one of this year’s Breakthrough prizes — the most lucrative awards in science.
Daily briefing: This brain structure filters which thoughts we become aware of

2 weeks ago | nature.com | Flora Graham

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Where conscious perception comes fromNeuroscientists have observed for the first time how structures deep in the brain are activated when the brain becomes aware of its own thoughts. People who had thin electrodes injected deep into their brains as part of a treatment for headaches allowed scientists to study their brain signals and measure conscious awareness.
Daily briefing: Drug makes people’s blood poisonous to mosquitoes

2 weeks ago | nature.com | Flora Graham

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Myanmar earthquake was a rare ruptureThe magnitude-7.7 earthquake that hit Myanmar on 28 March appears to have been a rare type known as supershear — in which the energy of a rupture moves exceptionally fast through the ground, amplifying the destruction.
Daily briefing: Women’s work is missing from the scientific literature

3 weeks ago | nature.com | Flora Graham

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Trump’s Greenland grab hits Arctic researchTension is rising in Arctic science because of US President Donald Trump’s threats to somehow take over Greenland. At a conference in Colorado earlier this week, some attendees protested in support of the autonomous, self-governing territory of Denmark.
Daily briefing: What happens when you pay peer reviewers?

3 weeks ago | nature.com | Flora Graham

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. What happens when you pay reviewers? Two journals have released data from their own experiments that suggest that offering payments of around US$250 to researchers who review manuscripts speeds up the process, without affecting the quality of reviews. A six-month experiment at Critical Care Medicine, led by clinical scientist David Maslove, found that the motivating effect on reviewers was small.
Daily briefing: Why RNA hasn’t yet had its ‘AlphaFold’ moment

3 weeks ago | nature.com | Flora Graham

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Meet the quditsThe quantum equivalent of ‘bits’ in classical computing are ‘qubits’ — quantum objects that can exist in a combination of 0 and 1. Now researchers are producing the first applications of ‘qudits’: units of information that offer combinations of three or more simultaneous states.
Daily briefing: Why women are far more likely to develop Alzheimer’s than men

4 weeks ago | nature.com | Flora Graham

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Brains might eat myelin during marathonsBrain scans of marathon runners suggest that myelin — a fatty substance that insulates the electrical signals transmitted by nerve cells — might also be a source of energy for the brain. After a race, runners’ levels of myelin are lower in areas involved in motor control and sensory and emotional processing than before they set off.
Daily briefing: Babies make memories - so why don’t we recall them?

1 month ago | nature.com | Flora Graham

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Forgotten, but not goneBabies as young as one year old can form memories, a new study reveals — the hard part is recalling them. Researchers used MRI scans to measure the brain activity of children aged 4 months to 2 years.