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Nature Podcast |
These tiny fish combine electric pulses to probe the environment
Elephantnose fish share electric pulses to extend their senses, and the bumblebees that show a uniquely human trait.
- Nick Petrić Howe
- & Benjamin Thompson
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Correspondence |
Space and nuclear pioneers show the value of empowering women in STEM
- Farhan M. Asrar
- , Safa Siddiqui
- & Soyeon Yi
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Research Highlight |
This dying star bears a jagged metal scar
The surface of a white dwarf is marked with metallic patches — souvenirs of its encounter with an asteroid or planet.
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News |
Two giant US telescopes threatened by funding cap
The Thirty Meter Telescope and Giant Magellan Telescope might need to compete for survival in the face of federal spending limits.
- Alexandra Witze
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News |
How dwarf galaxies lit up the Universe after the Big Bang
Some of the faintest objects ever observed suggest that small galaxies get the credit for clearing the ‘fog’ pervading the early cosmos.
- Sumeet Kulkarni
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Article |
Most of the photons that reionized the Universe came from dwarf galaxies
An analysis of eight ultra-faint galaxies during the epoch of reionization with absolute magnitudes between −17 mag and −15 mag shows that most of the photons that reionized the Universe come from dwarf galaxies.
- Hakim Atek
- , Ivo Labbé
- & Katherine E. Whitaker
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Article
| Open AccessThe Dimorphos ejecta plume properties revealed by LICIACube
Dimorphos ejecta plume properties were revealed by the observations from the LICIACube cube satellite, which was deployed 15 days in advance of the impact of DART.
- E. Dotto
- , J. D. P. Deshapriya
- & M. Zannoni
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Nature Podcast |
Could this one-time ‘epigenetic’ treatment control cholesterol?
Regulating gene expression lowers blood cholesterol in mice, and how the Universe’s cosmic fog was lifted.
- Nick Petrić Howe
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News |
Private Moon lander is dying — it scored some wins for science
The Odysseus spacecraft gathered data successfully from the lunar surface.
- Alexandra Witze
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News & Views |
From the archive: Stephen Hawking’s explosive idea, and scientific spirit
Snippets from Nature’s past.
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News |
Japanese Moon-lander unexpectedly survives the lunar night
Its engineers never gave up hope, but the Moon-lander continues to beat the odds.
- Ling Xin
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News |
Giant ‘bubble’ in space could be source of powerful cosmic rays
Scientists have identified a region in the Milky Way capable of accelerating particles to super-high energy levels.
- Gemma Conroy
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News |
First private Moon lander touches down on lunar surface to make history
After a nail-biting descent, the Odysseus spacecraft has landed near the lunar south pole and prepares to kick off a week of data gathering.
- Alexandra Witze
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News |
Supernova mystery solved: JWST reveals the fate of an iconic stellar explosion
Decades-long quest ends as the landmark observatory detects signs of the 1987 blast’s central neutron star.
- Alexandra Witze
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Obituary |
Arno A. Penzias (1933–2024), co-discoverer of the cosmic microwave background
Astrophysicist whose radio-wave observations confirmed the Big Bang origin of the Universe.
- John Bally
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Article |
A lanthanide-rich kilonova in the aftermath of a long gamma-ray burst
A modelling analysis shows that an unusually long gamma-ray burst gave rise to a lanthanide-rich kilonova following the merger of a neutron star–neutron star or of a neutron star–black hole.
- Yu-Han Yang
- , Eleonora Troja
- & Ignacio Pérez-García
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News & Views |
Rare isotopes formed in prelude to γ-ray burst
The afterglow of a long burst of γ-rays suggests that the events leading to these explosions can be sizeable sources of some of the Universe’s rare isotopes — and that classifications of γ-ray bursts are too simplistic.
- Daniel Kasen
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Article |
The Radcliffe Wave is oscillating
Spatial and kinematic analysis of the solar neighbourhood shows that the Radcliffe Wave, a wave-shaped chain of star-forming gas clouds, is oscillating through the Galactic plane while also drifting radially away from the Galactic Centre.
- Ralf Konietzka
- , Alyssa A. Goodman
- & Núria Miret-Roig
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Where I Work |
Building precision instruments to explore the cosmos
Phil Korngut tests NASA’s SPHEREx telescope under extreme conditions at his laboratory in California.
- Rachael Pells
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News |
The decimal point is 150 years older than historians thought
Origin of the powerful calculation tool traced back to a mathematician from the Italian Renaissance.
- Jo Marchant
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Article |
Rapid spin changes around a magnetar fast radio burst
X-ray observations of two large glitches bracketing a fast radio burst in the active Galactic magnetar SGR 1935+2154 reveal a connection between rapid spin change and radiative behaviours of the magnetar.
- Chin-Ping Hu
- , Takuto Narita
- & Keith C. Gendreau
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News |
This new map of the Universe suggests dark matter shaped the cosmos
The eROSITA telescope’s detailed pictures are among the most precise cosmological measurements ever made.
- Davide Castelvecchi
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Article |
A high black-hole-to-host mass ratio in a lensed AGN in the early Universe
JWST/NIRSpec observations of Abell2744-QSO1 show a high black-hole-to-host mass ratio in the early Universe, which indicates that we are seeing the black hole in a phase of rapid growth, accreting at 30% of the Eddington limit.
- Lukas J. Furtak
- , Ivo Labbé
- & Christina C. Williams
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Article |
A massive galaxy that formed its stars at z ≈ 11
A massive galaxy observed with the JWST indicates that the bulk of its stars formed within the first 500 million years of the Universe.
- Karl Glazebrook
- , Themiya Nanayakkara
- & Angel Chandro-Gomez
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Nature Podcast |
Smoking changes your immune system, even years after quitting
The lingering effect of cigarettes on T cell responses, and the Solar System's new ocean.
- Shamini Bundell
- & Nick Petrić Howe
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Article |
A recently formed ocean inside Saturn’s moon Mimas
An analysis of the orbital motion of Saturn’s moon Mimas shows that a recently formed global subsurface ocean lies beneath its cratered icy shell and that this ocean is probably still evolving.
- V. Lainey
- , N. Rambaux
- & K. Baillié
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News |
The Solar System has a new ocean — it’s buried in a small Saturn moon
The sea inside Saturn’s satellite Mimas formed in the past 25 million years, a blink of the eye in geological terms.
- Alexandra Witze
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News |
JWST is most in-demand telescope ever — leaving many astronomers in the cold
Reviewers will probably approve only one in every nine research proposals submitted in latest application cycle.
- Rahul Rao
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Article
| Open AccessA dynamical measure of the black hole mass in a quasar 11 billion years ago
Using the GRAVITY+ instrument, dynamical measurement of the black hole mass in a quasar at a redshift of 2.3 (11 billion years ago) shows how the relationship between galaxies and black holes evolves with time.
- R. Abuter
- , F. Allouche
- & G. Zins
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News |
Near death experience — Japan’s Moon lander makes a comeback
After nine days in a state of suspension, the upside-down Moon lander has received enough sunlight to start operating again.
- Gemma Conroy
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News |
‘Sci-fi instrument’ will hunt for giant gravitational waves in space
An experiment has been given the go ahead to send lasers to orbit the Sun to hunt for gigantic ripples in space-time.
- Elizabeth Gibney
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News |
Black-hole observations solve cosmic-ray mystery
Data from an African observatory show that jets from a collapsed star are capable of producing some of the Galaxy’s fastest particles.
- Davide Castelvecchi
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Matters Arising |
Probing supernovae and kicks in post-supernova binaries
- C. Larsen
- , H. C. G. Larsen
- & T. M. Tauris
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Matters Arising |
Replying to: Probing supernovae and kicks in post-supernova binaries
- Noel D. Richardson
- & Jan J. Eldridge
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Nature Podcast |
Toxic red mud could be turned into ‘green’ steel
Researchers extract useful metal from industrial waste, and how analysis of blood proteins could help unravel the mystery of long COVID.
- Benjamin Thompson
- & Shamini Bundell
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News |
China’s new dark-matter lab is biggest and deepest yet
The laboratory is scaling up its equipment to hunt for dark matter.
- Gemma Conroy
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News |
Japan’s successful Moon landing was the most precise ever
Landing within 100 metres of its target zone, the craft has pioneered a new image-based automatic navigation system. But its mission might be cut short.
- Ling Xin
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Article |
Stream–disk shocks as the origins of peak light in tidal disruption events
A three-dimensional radiation-hydrodynamic simulation of a tidal disruption event (TDE) flare from disruption to peak emission shows how deterministic predictions of TDE light curves and spectra can be calculated using moving-mesh hydrodynamics algorithms.
- Elad Steinberg
- & Nicholas C. Stone
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Article
| Open AccessA small and vigorous black hole in the early Universe
An extensive analysis of the JWST-NIRSpec spectrum of GN-z11 shows a supermassive black hole of a few million solar masses in a galaxy 440 million years after the Big Bang.
- Roberto Maiolino
- , Jan Scholtz
- & Fengwu Sun
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Article
| Open AccessSulfur dioxide in the mid-infrared transmission spectrum of WASP-39b
Observations from the JWST MIRI/LRS show the detection of SO2 spectral features in the 5–12-μm transmission spectrum of the hot, Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-39b, suggesting that photochemistry is a key process in high-temperature exoplanet atmospheres.
- Diana Powell
- , Adina D. Feinstein
- & Sergei N. Yurchenko
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Article |
A 12.4-day periodicity in a close binary system after a supernova
A stripped-envelope supernova, SN 2022jli, shows 12.4-day periodic undulations during the declining light curve, and narrow Hα emission is detected in late-time spectra with concordant periodic velocity shifts.
- Ping Chen
- , Avishay Gal-Yam
- & Lin Yan
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Article |
Ionized gas extends over 40 kpc in an odd radio circle host galaxy
We find that the optical emission due to ionized gas that is characteristic of a shock extends 40 kpc in diameter across the host galaxy of an odd radio circle.
- Alison L. Coil
- , Serena Perrotta
- & Kelly E. Whalen
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News & Views |
Neutrino secrets could be revealed by Earth’s atmosphere
Scientists typically look at the skies or take to the laboratory to probe the neutrino’s properties. But neutrinos produced in Earth’s atmosphere could reveal this long-sought information — and the experiments are already well under way.
- Josh Spitz
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Book Review |
Black holes, love and poetry — an artistic exploration of intimacy and adventure
A book by physicist Kip Thorne and artist Lia Halloran explores the mysteries of space through poetry and paintings.
- Ron Cowen
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Essay |
Does quantum theory imply the entire Universe is preordained?
The popular idea that quantum physics implies everything is random and nothing is certain might be as far from the truth as it could possibly be.
- Eddy Keming Chen
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Career Q&A |
Crossing the generational divide: what established scientists and early-career researchers can learn from each other
Astrophysicist and Shaw prizewinner Victoria Kaspi describes how science forums can help researchers of all ages to share ideas and career concerns.
- Kamal Nahas
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News |
The science events to watch for in 2024
Advanced AI tools, Moon missions and ultrafast supercomputers are among the developments set to shape research in the coming year.
- Miryam Naddaf
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Nature Podcast |
Navigating planets, plays and prejudice — a conversation with Aomawa Shields
The astronomer joins us to talk about her memoir Life on Other Planets.
- Benjamin Thompson