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Islands are rich with languages spoken nowhere else

Analysis of nearly 1,200 languages spoken on islands shows that islands play a crucial part in fostering language diversity1. Access

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Why we choke under pressure

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I fire darts at whales to help track their movements

“Here, I’m standing on a research boat moored in Húsavík harbour in Iceland’s Skjálfandi Bay, showing how I use a

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past lessons for our uncertain times

After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), then celebrating its 100th

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how conquest and carnage have decimated landscapes worldwide

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why researchers now run small AIs on their laptops

The website histo.fyi is a database of structures of immune-system proteins called major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules. It includes images,

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Meet the recipient of the first whole-eye transplant

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Academics say flying to meetings harms the climate — but they carry on

Air travel to attend academic conferences remains widespread although many meeting-goers have reservations about emissions.Credit: Liesa Johannssen/Bloomberg/Getty An overwhelming majority

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Agonist antibody to guanylate cyclase receptor NPR1 regulates vascular tone

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Cage-like complexes that protect folding proteins visualized in cells

RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 11 September 2024 The bacterial chaperonin complex — consisting of the proteins GroEL and GroES — assists the