Category Science & Discovery

Official estimates suggest that about a third of all crops in Sri Lanka are eaten or destroyed by wild animals. Sri Lanka carried out a nationwide census Saturday of nuisance wildlife, including monkeys and peacocks, in a bid to prepare…

Human specimens Human liver tissues for the single-nucleus sequencing were obtained from different sources as shown in Supplementary Table 10. Liver samples were collected under IRB-approved protocols at the University of Pittsburgh (IRB protocol 19120198), Johns Hopkins University School of…

It looks like it’s straight out of a comic book, but BiVACOR is a real, functioning titanium heart. The metal device is ultimately intended as a replacement for human donor organs, but was first utilized last year as a stopgap…

A newborn wombat baby APARI sits in its mother’s pouch at the zoo in Duisburg, Germany, Thursday, March 29, 2018. Credit: AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File Wombats are furry, nocturnal marsupials found only in Australia. Baby wombats have recently been in…

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. The black-ringed ‘leopard spots’ on a Martian rock might be evidence of chemical reactions that could have involved microorganisms. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS…

I’m truly impressed with the Stanley Cup’s staying power as a cultural object. In recent years, it has outgrown its station as a simple piece of drinkware and become a seemingly omnipresent accessory. They’re in schools. They’re in gyms. They’re…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A global survey of more than 30,000 people in 30 countries has revealed how people around the world feel about climate change, and how those emotions relate to perceptions of and support for climate interventions that…

A prolonged period of extreme lethargy seems to slow ageing in mice by lowering their core body temperature1. Access options Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription 24,99 € / 30 days cancel any time Subscribe…

Lawmakers in New York have proposed a new bill that would make it illegal to mount weapons to robots or drones. That is of course, unless the people operating those weaponized machines happen to work with law enforcement or the…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain How do young children categorize objects? To find out, Sarah Dufour, an assistant professor in the didactics department of the Faculty of Education at Université de Montréal, conducted a study in which children were given toy…