How a tree-hugging protest transformed Indian environmentalism
Nature, Published online: 26 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00895-yFifty years ago, a group of women from the villages of the Western Himalayas sparked Chipko, a green movement that remains relevant in the age of climate change. (Source: Nature AOP)
Source: Nature AOP - March 26, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Seema Mundoli Source Type: research

The beauty of what science can do when urgently needed
Nature, Published online: 26 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00928-6Working amid New York City’s pandemic response inspired Nili Ostrov’s approach to expanding the list of organisms that can be used in synthetic biology and engineering. (Source: Nature AOP)
Source: Nature AOP - March 26, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Katherine Bourzac Source Type: research

‘Exhausted and insulted’: how harsh visa-application policies are hobbling global research
Nature, Published online: 26 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00892-1Institutions and individuals from low- and middle-income countries are wasting time, effort and money trying to get visas for research travel, only to be rejected. A new approach is needed. (Source: Nature AOP)
Source: Nature AOP - March 26, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Sandra Owusu-Gyamfi Source Type: research

Don’t underestimate the rising threat of groundwater to coastal cities
Nature, Published online: 26 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00917-9Don’t underestimate the rising threat of groundwater to coastal cities (Source: Nature AOP)
Source: Nature AOP - March 26, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Daniel J. Rozell Source Type: research

The ‘Anthropocene’ is here to stay — and it’s better not as a geological epoch
Nature, Published online: 26 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00914-yThe ‘Anthropocene’ is here to stay — and it’s better not as a geological epoch (Source: Nature AOP)
Source: Nature AOP - March 26, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Thomas P. Roland Graeme T. Swindles Alastair Ruffell Source Type: research

A glowing glass transmits X-rays with ease
Nature, Published online: 26 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00862-7Copper-containing ‘nanoclusters’ form glasses with an orderly structure and unusual properties. (Source: Nature AOP)
Source: Nature AOP - March 26, 2024 Category: Research Source Type: research

Cuts to postgraduate funding threaten Brazilian science — again
Nature, Published online: 26 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00916-wCuts to postgraduate funding threaten Brazilian science — again (Source: Nature AOP)
Source: Nature AOP - March 26, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Marcus F. Oliveira Adriane R. Todeschini Source Type: research

Superconductivity case shows the need for zero tolerance of toxic lab culture
Nature, Published online: 26 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00915-xSuperconductivity case shows the need for zero tolerance of toxic lab culture (Source: Nature AOP)
Source: Nature AOP - March 26, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Juan Pablo Fuenzalida Werner Source Type: research

Daily briefing: Pregnancy advances your ‘biological’ age’
Nature, Published online: 25 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00936-6Being pregnant can increase a person’s ‘biological age’ by a couple of years — but giving birth reverses these changes. Plus, urban vegetable gardens have a shocking carbon footprint. (Source: Nature AOP)
Source: Nature AOP - March 25, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Flora Graham Source Type: research

Weird new electron behaviour in stacked graphene thrills physicists
Nature, Published online: 25 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00832-zThis 2D material is only the second to exhibit the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect, and theorists are still debating how it works. (Source: Nature AOP)
Source: Nature AOP - March 25, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Dan Garisto Source Type: research

Larger or longer grants unlikely to push senior scientists towards high-risk, high-reward work
Nature, Published online: 25 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00929-5A survey of US professors suggests that broad changes to grant schemes might be needed to incentivize new approaches to research. (Source: Nature AOP)
Source: Nature AOP - March 25, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Dalmeet Singh Chawla Source Type: research

I peer into volcanoes to see when they’ll blow
Nature, Published online: 25 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00896-xMariton Antonia Bornas runs a Filipino volcano research and response organization. (Source: Nature AOP)
Source: Nature AOP - March 25, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Margaret Simons Source Type: research

A horse cemetery in London reveals medieval mounts’ distant origins
Nature, Published online: 25 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00861-8Horses buried near the royal complex of Westminster in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries had been imported from as far away as Scandinavia. (Source: Nature AOP)
Source: Nature AOP - March 25, 2024 Category: Research Source Type: research

‘Hopeless, burnt out, sad’: how political change is impacting female researchers in Latin America
Nature, Published online: 25 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00885-0Already feeling invisible and unappreciated, the election of far-right administrations in Argentina and elsewhere are unsettling for women in science. (Source: Nature AOP)
Source: Nature AOP - March 25, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Julie Gould Source Type: research

How did the Big Bang get its name? Here’s the real story
Nature, Published online: 25 March 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00894-zAstronomer Fred Hoyle supposedly coined the catchy term to ridicule the theory of the Universe’s origins — 75 years on, it’s time to set the record straight. (Source: Nature AOP)
Source: Nature AOP - March 25, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Helge Kragh Source Type: research