How humans lost their tails
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Organoids grown from amniotic fluid could shed light on rare diseases
An kidney organoid made from amniotic cells Credit: Giuseppe Calà, Paolo De Coppi and Mattia Gerli Cells taken from the
Big science in Latin America: accelerate particles and progress
Large scientific facilities do more than just deliver breakthroughs — they build capacity. Regions that host them benefit from the
Kurt Gödel’s forgotten part in the atom-bomb story
Kurt Gödel (left) and Albert Einstein in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1950.Credit: Imagno/Getty The 2023 film Oppenheimer narrates the story
I look for the mineral equivalent of tree rings
“In 1979, ethologist Christophe Boesch and his wife Hedwige Boesch-Achermann began researching the behaviour of a community of wild West
Huge, parasitic, stemless, rootless, leafless, stinking — fall in love with Rafflesia
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My productivity waxes and wanes — and I’m learning to account for it
Camila Souza Beraldo advises planning work activities to accommodate your own energy cycles.Credit: Emy Guilbault I started my PhD in
More than 2 million research papers have disappeared from the Internet
A study identified more than two million articles that did not appear in a major digital archive, despite having an
What science says about hybrid working — and how to make it a success
Certain aspects of scientific life do not lend themselves to working from home. Archaeologist Adrià Breu, who studies neolithic pottery
Influential abortion pill studies retracted
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