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Springer Nature@springernature.com · 3h ago

Born on 5 August 1930, Neil Armstrong inspired generations to look beyond our world. #OnThisDay, we celebrate the astronaut, engineer, and explorer who became the first person to walk on the Moon, taking humanity one step further into the cosmos. 🚀🌕

Portrait of Neil Armstrong in a white NASA astronaut suit with an American flag patch, set against a blurred moon. Text reads: "Did You Know? Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong flew over 78 combat missions as a naval aviator and later worked as a test pilot, pushing the limits of experimental aircraft."
Springer Nature@springernature.com · 21h ago

A flowering plant has been confirmed as a new carnivorous lineage, says research in Nature Communications. Findings show Saxifraga candelabrum can attract, trap, & digest insects, and absorb nitrogen from them, supporting prediction made by Charles Darwin: spklr.io/63323EuqgT #Biology 🌾 🧪

Identification of carnivory in the flowering plant Saxifraga via multidisciplinary evidence - Nature Communications

Carnivorous plants capture and digest insects for nutrients, an adaptive strategy typically found in wetlands. This study identifies carnivory in the alpine Saxifraga plant lineage, supporting Darwin's hypothesis of carnivory in this genus.

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Springer Nature@springernature.com · yesterday

Students who open a personal social media account earlier in adolescence appear to perform worse in later standardised tests, says Nature Human Behaviour study. These differences may be attributable to excessive social media engagement and disruptions to attention: spklr.io/63325Euloc 🧪

Longitudinal effect of early social media use on standardized learning outcomes during school career - Nature Human Behaviour

Analysing data from 5,227 students from northern Italy, this article finds causal evidence that early engagement with social media adversely affects learning outcomes.

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Saga Thing Podcast@sagathingpodcast.bsky.social · 2d ago

We sat down recently with the great Ármann Jakobsson to discuss his new book, Minor Characters in Icelandic Sagas. We explore the place and value of minor characters in the sagas, dig into Ármann’s favorite (and least favorite) saga figures, and revisit some of his previous scholarship.

Saga Brief 29 – Interview with Ármann Jakobsson on Minor Characters in Icelandic Sagas

In this very special Saga Brief, we sit down with Ármann Jakobsson (one of our favorite saga scholars) to discuss his latest book, Minor Characters in Icelandic Sagas (Palgrave Macmillan). Following the theme of the book, we dive into the many overlooked and often nameless characters who so often breathe life and meaning into the sagas. Since we have mentioned Ármann so many times on the podcast, we also take advantage of the opportunity to revisit his extensive bibliography, including…

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Springer Nature@springernature.com · 2d ago

Salty water flowing through Antarctica’s Blood Falls contains a distinct community of marine-specific microorganisms, providing evidence that the brine system beneath the glacier has a marine origin, says paper in Nature Geoscience: spklr.io/63320Eulop #Geosciences #Geology ⚒️

Molecular evidence for a relict marine community in an Antarctic Dry Valleys subglacial brine-fed system - Nature Geoscience

Eukaryotic microorganisms within a subglacial brine-fed system in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica are largely of marine origin, a legacy of past incursions of seawater into the area, according to RNA sequencing and metatranscriptomic analyses.

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Springer Nature@springernature.com · 3d ago

What do you do after you’ve been to the Moon and back? Flying in space is a hard act to follow. Many astronauts have forged thriving post-space careers by redirecting their immense talent and drive into fresh projects. Here is what’s next for the Artemis II astronauts: spklr.io/63329Eun0c

Here’s what’s next for the Artemis II astronauts

Newfound fame has proved to be stellar for some astronauts but harder for others. Will NASA’s popular crew need some space?

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Springer Nature@springernature.com · 3d ago

Success in research isn't just about mastering science. It's about making tough decisions in uncertain situations and building the judgement to navigate them. Read more in our Research Communities: spklr.io/63325Eun2H #AcademicSky

The Decisions Nobody Teaches

Building an international research career beyond the official handbook. Every international research career is built through a sequence of decisions. Surprisingly, almost none of them are formally taught.

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Springer Nature@springernature.com · 4d ago

A postdoc hunting for a job outside of academic research tells Nature that they are lost amid the opaque, multi-stage interview processes of big science companies. Career coaches and hiring managers offer a dose of clarity. spklr.io/63320EunLa #AcademicSky

My job interviews for industry positions are going nowhere. How do I make myself stand out?

A postdoc researcher trying to move into an industry role wants help gaining traction and making it past the first interview stage.

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Springer Nature@springernature.com · 5d ago

One of our top-rated articles on Altmetric this past week was published open access in Nature Geoscience. You can read 'Recent active rifting on Venus revealed by wide rift flank uplifts' here: spklr.io/63323Euwwt #astro 🔭

Recent active rifting on Venus revealed by wide rift flank uplifts - Nature Geoscience

Comparisons between thermomechanical models and Venusian rift morphologies indicate that rifts on Venus are still, or were recently, active and may have undergone faster extension than usually assumed, potentially because of mantle plume activity.

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Springer Nature@springernature.com · 5d ago

Deploying ocean iron fertilization — a strategy for carbon dioxide capture — in higher latitudes rather than near the equator could reduce environmental impacts while still achieving removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, says a modelling study in Nature: spklr.io/63322EunDu 🧪

Climate benefit and ecological cost trade-offs for ocean iron fertilization - Nature

A process-rich global biogeochemical model is used to determine the trade-offs between carbon dioxide removal efficiency and ecosystem impacts in ten ocean ocean biomes following ocean iron fertilization.

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Springer Nature@springernature.com · 5d ago

Born on 31 July 1923, Stephanie Kwolek transformed materials-science. #OnThisDay, we celebrate the chemist who invented Kevlar: a lightweight fiber five times stronger than steel, now used in protective gear from helmets to body armor. 💪

Headshot of chemist Stephanie Kwolek (Science History Institute, 1986). Text: 'Did You Know? Kwolek discovered Kevlar while experimenting with polymer solutions. Her unusual, cloudy mixture turned out to be one of the strongest fibers ever created.'
Springer Nature@springernature.com · 6d ago

Silicon-based quantum computing chips capable of carrying out basic operations that are critical to enable quantum-based computation are reported by two separate groups publishing in Nature: spklr.io/63324Eun8I & spklr.io/63327Eun8F 🧪

A digitally controlled silicon quantum processing unit - Nature

A silicon quantum processing unit executes high-fidelity multiqubit circuits, with all time-varying control signals generated by a digitally programmed cryogenic complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor controller and delivered to the low-noise, exchange-only qubit device through a high-density superconducting ribbon cable.

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Springer Nature@springernature.com · 6d ago

#OnThisDay in 1971, Apollo 15 landed on the Moon. Astronauts David Scott and James Irwin became the first to drive the Lunar Rover, expanding exploration beyond earlier missions and transforming how we study the Moon. 🌕🚀

Astronaut salutes on the Moon next to an American flag, lunar lander, & rover. Text: "Did You Know? The Lunar Rover allowed astronauts to travel over 27 km across the Moon's surface, far more than any previous mission."
Springer Nature@springernature.com · 7d ago

Aerial imaging has detected 432 patterns called earthworks, on the ground in southwestern Amazonia. The region may contain 24,000–30,000 earthworks. Findings may help to redefine the true scale of Amazonian earthworks and the communities that built them: spklr.io/63327EuTy9 #Archaeology 🏺

Over 20,000 precolonial earthworks in the Southwest Amazonia - Nature

Using canopy-penetrating LiDAR data, the northern part of southwestern Amazonia appears to contain as many earthworks as previously estimated for the whole of Amazonia.

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