NATURE
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How does the brain control consciousness? This deep-brain structure
The inner structures of the brain are difficult to investigate without surgery.Credit: K H Fung/Science Photo Library Neuroscientists have observed…
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Style over substance? What birds’ mating behaviours reveal about sexual selection
Birds, Sex & Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin’s Strangest Idea Matt Ridley 4th Estate (2025) At 4 a.m.…
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Publishers trial paying peer reviewers — what did they find?
Trials suggest that offering payment can increase the chance of a researcher agreeing to review, and in some cases speed…
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what are the health benefits?
As anyone seeking to lose weight knows, diets come in and out of fashion. The Sexy Pineapple diet, launched by…
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US universities curtail staff, spending as Trump cuts take hold
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge has frozen hiring for non-faculty positions.Credit: Mel Musto/Bloomberg/Getty The onslaught of US spending…
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Matrix-producing neutrophils populate and shield the skin
De Veer, M. J., Kemp, J. M. & Meeusen, E. N. T. The innate host defence against nematode parasites. Parasite…
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Stay safe from online hate with these five tips
With papers to write, grants to apply for and students to teach, cybersecurity can be a low priority for scientists.…
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Will RFK Jr’s vaccine agenda make America contagious again?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr, an activist against vaccination, now oversees the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other…
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Our experience of teaching neuroscience in a maximum-security prison
Shai Berman and Tessa Montague need to carry their teaching materials in clear prison-issue bags when they help inmates to…
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Ice-hunting Moon lander runs into trouble ― leaving scientists in suspense
The Athena lander touched down in the region around the lunar south pole (pictured) on 6 March as planned, but…
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