The surprising cause of fasting’s regenerative powers
Some of the health benefits of fasting kick in when food consumption resumes, animal experiments show.Credit: Getty Breaking a fast
Can ageing be stopped? A biologist explains
Download Nature hits the books 22 August 2024 For millennia, humanity has obsessed about halting ageing and, ultimately, preventing death.
South Korean science on the global stage
Research output South Korea’s Share in natural-science journals in the Nature Index is shown alongside its closest competitors in the
A guide to the Nature Index
The Nature Index is a database of author affiliations and institutional relationships. The index tracks contributions to research articles published
Visualizing chaperonin function in situ by cryo-electron tomography
Plasmids and strains Escherichia coli BL21(DE3) Gold cells (Stratagene) were used for growth analysis, electron tomography and protein expression. For
AI can’t learn new things forever — an algorithm can fix that
Download the Nature Podcast 21 August 2024 In this episode: 00:46 Old AIs can’t learn new tricks An algorithm that
Human XPR1 structures reveal phosphate export mechanism
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First biolab in South America for studying world’s deadliest viruses is set to open
Last month, Brazil celebrated breaking ground on what it hopes will become the first maximum-security biosciences laboratory in Latin America.
Structural insights into the high-affinity IgE receptor FcεRI complex
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The future of detecting gravitational waves: A three minute guide
Observatories, experiments and techniques are being developed to spot ripples in space-time at frequencies that are currently undetectable. The main