Turning city planning into a game
Ursula Eicker and her colleagues have built a gamified tool for urban planning.Credit: Marc Bourcier/Concordia University Ursula Eicker builds ‘digital...
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Will war in Ukraine mark a new era for European defence research?
Some time in the next decade, solar-powered European airships might hover 20 kilometres above battlefields, relaying crucial details about the...
Multicoloured Mars, drone delivery and dust-storm disease
Blue areas depict the largest and youngest craters — including Karratha, the source of the Black Beauty meteorite.Credit: A. Lagain...
Scientists welcome ‘enormous’ US climate bill — but call for stronger action
US President Joe Biden signs the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 into law on 16 August.Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty...
A graphics toolkit for visualizing genome data
The genomics world has no shortage of visualization tools. But as new methods and data types emerge, existing techniques can...
We must get a grip on forest science — before it’s too late
Climate models need to capture a full spectrum of data from forests such as the Brazilian Amazon.Credit: Florence Goisnard/AFP/Getty Humanity’s...
These rules for an ocean economy would help the whole planet
My office at the University of California, Santa Barbara, looks out over the coastline. The United States’ first set of...
Daily briefing: The impact of overturning Roe v. Wade in seven charts
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A massive planet circles a huge star doomed to explode
Nature, Published online: 15 August 2022; doi:10.1038/d41586-022-02166-0Confirmation of a second planet around the star μ2 Scorpii would indicate the first...
35 years of channelling potassium ions
Nature, Published online: 15 August 2022; doi:10.1038/d41586-022-02163-3In 1987, two independent groups cloned a gene that encoded the potassium-ion-channel protein Shaker,...
