Where on Earth is safest from global catastrophe?

Researchers have worked out the safest, most resilient country to be in during an apocalyptic event.

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South Africa’s scientists must register with official body or risk prison, according to draft law

Many researchers are unaware of an upcoming law that will require them to register with a regulatory body, as is the case for engineers and healthcare professonals.

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Three tips to avoid AI image mistakes in science

Artificial-intelligence tools can be useful for brainstorming and creating graphics, but they can introduce errors. If you’re going to use them, here’s how to avoid problems.

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Three tips to avoid AI image mistakes in science

Artificial-intelligence tools can be useful for brainstorming and creating graphics, but they can introduce errors. If you’re going to use them, here’s how to avoid problems.

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Three tips to avoid AI image mistakes in science

Artificial-intelligence tools can be useful for brainstorming and creating graphics, but they can introduce errors. If you’re going to use them, here’s how to avoid problems.

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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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Something is interfering with alien radio signals in space, new paper claims — and there's an easy way to fix it

New research suggests that alien radio signals may be transformed by plasma from their home stars — and scientists on Earth could thus be overlooking prime evidence of alien intelligence.

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'Rosetta Stone' radio signal helps scientists decode strange, repeating blasts from space

Radio astronomers have decoded a peculiar repeating radio signal from deep space, tracing it to a vampiric binary star system.

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UK physical scientists brace for new round of funding cuts

They are advocating for projects and facilities that are threatened by the government’s cost-cutting plans.

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Flowering plants transformed into 'hopeful monsters' in 9 dire bursts across evolutionary time, study finds

In hard times, like when the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit Earth, some plants transformed into "hopeful monsters" to save themselves. Now, a new paper shows that these monsters are more common than we...

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RDM Weekly - Issue 037

A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

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Drowning in data sets? Here’s how to cut them down to size

Indefinite data retention is neither financially nor practically possible, but there are ways to give your data maximal long-term value.

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Bonobos are just as aggressive as chimps, but there's a key difference — the female bonobos

A new study of chimpanzee and bonobo groups at zoos reveals similar levels of aggression. However, scientists found stark sex-based differences between the species.

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Planting trees in the sea could act as a huge carbon sink and save millions of dollars in storm damage every year. What is stopping us from doing it?

A new study reveals restoring mangroves could save $800 million in storm damage, protect 140,000 people from flooding, and remove almost triple the amount of CO2 produced by cars in the U.S. every yea...

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International Women's Day 2026

Nature highlights developments in women’s health research and career guidance for women in science.

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International Women's Day 2026

Nature highlights developments in women’s health research and career guidance for women in science.

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How big is the ‘motherhood penalty’? In Denmark, it adds up to $120,000

An analysis documents the cumulative income hit mothers incur — as well as the extent to which state aid can offset the loss.

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In the search for bees, Mozambique honey hunters and birds share a language with distinct, regional dialects

People searching for honey in Mozambique work with birds via a shared language in a rare case of cooperation between humans and wild animals. This language also comes with regional dialects — that app...

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Ancient mummified cheetahs discovered in Saudi Arabia contain preserved DNA from the long-lost population

Cheetahs vanished from Saudi Arabia half a century ago. Now long-dead mummified big cats may help herald their return.

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Scientists watch microscopic plant 'mouths' breathing in real time with palm-sized tool

Scientists say their Stomata In-Sight tool can observe plants "breathe," which could be used to bioengineer crops that require less water, making them potentially more resilient to climate change.

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Polar bears in southern Greenland are 'using jumping genes to rapidly rewrite their own DNA' to survive melting sea ice

Warming temperatures appear to be driving genetic mutations in some polar bears to help them survive the shifting climatic conditions.

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Death Valley shrub rearranges its insides to thrive in one of the hottest places on Earth

Heat-loving plants that thrive in California's Death Valley could hold the key to growing crops in a changing climate.

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Cosmic dawn: the search for the primordial hydrogen signal – Physics World

Sarah Wild talks to astronomers across the world who are on a hunt for a subtle hydrogen signal that could confirm or disprove our ideas on the universe’s evolution

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AI models are neglecting African languages — scientists want to change that

Scientists record 9,000 hours of languages spoken in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa as free-access training data for AI models.

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Need to update your data? Follow these five tips

Researchers engaged in long-term projects often need to update their data sets over time. Here’s how to do it while maintaining reproducibility.

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