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More than 40,000 insect species may live in a tiny patch of the Amazon, from the ground to the canopy. That's nearly half of all the insect species described in Brazil. I wrote about the ambitious project behind this estimate for @nature.com. It could uncover tens of thousands of species:

Tiny patch of Amazon likely holds 40,000 insect species — many new to science

Megaproject involving hundreds of sites is cataloguing rainforest insects from the ground to the canopy.

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I love a story about a researcher who is a force for good: @nature.com's Working Scientist profile of Mary Gray, statistician, mathematician and lawyer. As told to Rachel Crowell. How I use statistics and my law degree to fight human-rights abuses www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How I use statistics and my law degree to fight human-rights abuses

Some 50 years after exposing gender discrimination in US academics’ retirement benefits, Mary Gray works as a statistician and social-justice campaigner.

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Longitudinal proteomic analysis of plasma from unaffected carriers of ALS-associated pathogenic variants shows early protein changes before ALS symptoms and enabled mapping of their trajectories as well as prediction of the timing of phenoconversion, according to a paper in Nature Communications. 🧪

Longitudinal plasma proteomics predict phenoconversion to clinically manifest ALS - Nature Medicine

Longitudinal proteomic analysis of plasma from unaffected carriers of ALS-associated pathogenic variants revealed early protein changes before ALS symptoms and enabled mapping of their trajectories as well as prediction of the timing of phenoconversion

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Did you know all living things emit a faint glow? They're called 'biophotons,' and ultra-weak ‘biophotons’ might be used to diagnose disease or could even represent a new signalling mechanism in cells, according to a feature in Nature. ⚛️ 🧪

All living things emit a faint glow. Could this light be useful?

Ultra-weak ‘biophotons’ might be used to diagnose disease, or could even represent a new signalling mechanism in cells.

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"Tipping analyses focus on huge climate changes, often globally, over decades. Weather events are fast and local," writes Anders Levermann. "But look at the interplay between the two and it’s clear that the transition between one climate state and another is not smooth but extremely volatile." 🌎🧪

‘Climate free fall’: why the biggest risk to our economies is yet to be recognized

Increasing instability of the ocean, ice and atmosphere threatens farming, finance and society. We all need to wake up to that fact.

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Excited to share that our paper “Climate Benefit and Ecological Cost Trade-offs for Ocean Iron Fertilization” has been published in Nature🌊🌍 Many thanks to my for contributing authors for their insightful discussion, help and support!

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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, according to a study in Nature. go.nature.com/4hJtalk 🌎🌊🧪

This is figure 1, which shows atmospheric net CO2 drawdown and CDR efficiency across regions and fertilization intensities.