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The African Sahel's dry season lasts for most of the year. When the rain finally begins in spring, thousands of
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The $3 billion California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the world's largest stem cell research agency, is funded by the state
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Treating cancer requires aggressive but targeted therapy. Some cancer drugs are too toxic because they damage healthy cells as well
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How can we maintain resources for future generations?Economists have studied how people cooperate in groups, but they haven't
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Living Symphonies is a sound installation which aims to portray a forest ecosystem in an ever changing soundscape - reflecting,
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Smoke from traditional cookstoves kills around 4 million people each year. In this video we meet several families in India
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Scientists have found the oldest sperm ever discovered, and they are whoppers. They belong to a type of tiny crustacean
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Scientists at MIT have traced 13 billion years of galaxy evolution, from shortly after the Big Bang to the present
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We asked artist Sue Morgan to design the cover for Nature's special collection of articles about schizophrenia. Sue was
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When she's experiencing hallucinations, artist Sue Morgan feels compelled to draw; to 'get it out of her head'. Sue
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More than 500 million years ago in the Cambrian period there was an explosion of animal life. The top predators
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The rate at which the Earth's atmosphere is warming has slowed in recent years. The reasons presented for this so-called
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Scientists from the Centre for Astrophysics have found evidence of gravitational waves created mere moments after the dawn of the
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Update/Download the NatureJournals app and subscribe to any title in the app annually for just $35.99, monthly for $4.99 —
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You've walked for several hours to get your baby vaccinated. But the clinic has run out of vaccines -- or
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In a new exhibition, the British Library pays homage to the important role data visualisation plays in the scientific process.
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The skin is the body's main barrier against physical insults and microbial pathogens. Diverse and functionally specialized subsets of immune
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Look up to the sky and you might see birds flying in a 'V' shape. This pattern is thought to
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Carley Rutledge is studying biology at university in Colorado. She loves hiking and hanging out with friends. Many of us
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As the world commemorates the life of Nelson Mandela, Nature Video takes a look at how science has fared in
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This month sees the release of the second film in The Hobbit trilogy: The Desolation of Smaug. Perhaps the
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In a quest to keep materials dry, scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been filming water droplets in slow
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Nature reporter Amy Maxmen travelled to Mali and Senegal to learn about a new strategy for protecting children against malaria
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In February 2013, an asteroid smashed into Earth near the town of Chelyabinsk in Russia. The event was captured on
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The John Maddox Prize recognises the work of individuals who promote sound science and evidence on a matter of public
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Neuroscientists are starting to decipher what a person is seeing, remembering and even dreaming just by looking at their brain
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We should all be worried by the growing number of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and we urgently need to develop new drugs,
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Scientists have found evidence of supervolcanoes on Mars. Several craters, thought to be created by impacts from space, may have
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What role can science play in the developing world? In this film, Nobel Peace Prize winner José Ramos-Horta and Israeli
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We are facing a global energy crisis, and scientists are charged with finding alternatives to fossil fuels. In this film,
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At this summer's Lindau Meeting we focused on pressing world problems and how chemistry can help us to solve them.
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was founded 25 years ago to provide authoritative assessments on the emerging problem
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Brain training games claim to boost your mental skills. But while practicing a game might make you better at it,
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Scientists have turned light signals from distant stars into sound. By analysing the amount of hiss in the sound,
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At the micro-scale the brain is a mess; a thick tangle of nerve cells connected at synapses. Mapping just
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Helping you publish, discover and research data. A new open-access, online-only publication for descriptions of scientifically valuable datasets. It introduces
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How do you make a working human heart? Scientists can turn stem cells into beating heart cells, but getting them
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Humans are much better at throwing than any other animal. Even our closest living relatives, chimpanzees, can't match our