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3 weeks ago | 
nature.com | Nisha Gaind |Rachel Fieldhouse |Miryam Naddaf
As attacks on US science by the administration of President Donald Trump continue, countries worldwide are stepping up their efforts to recruit US research talent. In the past few months, governments and institutions have launched programmes to attract scientists from the United States, where the Trump administration has made deep cuts to research budgets and begun dismantling science agencies.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
nature.com | Nisha Gaind
The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team. Red carpet. Wild elk (Cervus canadensis) graze in the vibrantly coloured Tiaozini wetlands in China’s eastern Jiangsu province. The wetlands are carpeted by the Chinese mugwort shrub (Artemisia halodendron), which turns a bright red in autumn, attracting wildlife such as birds and the elk.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
nature.com | Nisha Gaind
After a decade building quantum-computing hardware, Jacques Carolan decided he needed a change. “I wanted to work on technologies that were more directly related to human health,” he says. So in 2021, he pivoted to neuroscience with the aim of building optical technologies to understand the brain. Last year, another opportunity turned Carolan’s head. The UK government was setting up a high-risk research funding agency.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
nature.com | Nisha Gaind |Roff Smith
Stonehenge, the Neolithic stone circle on Salisbury Plain in southern England, has captivated archaeologists, antiquarians and sightseers for centuries. In the twelfth century, cleric Henry of Huntingdon described the haunting assemblage as one of the great wonders of England, adding that no one knew who built it or why.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
vientosur.info | Nisha Gaind
[Se cumplen 30 años del comienzo del genocidio de 1994 en Ruanda, en el que miembros de la etnia hutu asesinaron a unas 800.000 personas de comunidades tutsis. El suceso es hoy uno de los más investigados. Estos estudios son difíciles porque, entre otras razones, el genocidio casi acabó con la comunidad académica de Ruanda.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
nature.com | Nisha Gaind
Kigali, RwandaThe church at Ntarama, a 45-minute drive south of Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, is a red-brick building about 20 metres long by 5 metres wide. Inside are features seen in Catholic churches around the world: pews for congregation members, an altar, stained-glass windows and a cross adorning the entrance.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
spektrum.de | Jeff Tollefson |Smriti Mallapaty |Nisha Gaind |Carissa Wong |Sarah Wild
HintergrundLesedauer ca. 11 MinutenDruckenTeilenSuperwahljahr 2024: Wie fünf Wahlen die Klimapolitik der nächsten Jahrzehnte prägenDie Bevölkerungen von fünf der weltweit größten Treibhausgasemittenten sind 2024 zu Wahlen aufgerufen. Die Ergebnisse werden über die Zukunft unseres Planeten entscheiden. Exklusive Übersetzung ausIn fünf Regionen mit den meisten Treibhausgasemissionen finden 2024 Wahlen statt.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
nature.com | Nisha Gaind
A row over a building once used by chemist Marie Skłodowska-Curie has been resolved following negotiations between the French culture ministry and a group of scientists who want to demolish the site to build a leading cancer-research centre. The resolution, announced on 31 January, will allow the scientists at the Curie Institute in Paris, one of France’s premier biomedical-research institutes, to build their €13-million cancer centre on the site.
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Sep 20, 2023 | 
nature.com | Lilly Tozer |Katharine Sanderson |Nisha Gaind |Miryam Naddaf
After years of negotiation, the United Kingdom has at last established its post-Brexit relationship with the European Union on research. Scientists had been in limbo since the Brexit ‘transition period’ ended in 2021. This month, they welcomed the news that the United Kingdom will rejoin Horizon Europe — the EU’s flagship €95-billion (US$101-billion) research-funding programme — as an associate member (see ‘A new era’).
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May 31, 2023 | 
nature.com | Nisha Gaind
The Hunterian Museum 38–43 Lincolns Inn Fields, London, UK hunterianmuseum.orgEighteenth century Scottish surgeon and anatomist John Hunter made trailblazing contributions to both fields, including performing one of the first instances of artificially inseminating a woman. But he is perhaps best known today as an inveterate collector who acquired, dissected and preserved human and animal tissues from all corners of Earth.
