10 Strange Yet True Historical Events – Listverse
History is full of weird and wild things that most people go their entire lives without reading about. Stories about cat-related military operations or entire wars fought over pigs and…
10 Government Jobs You Never Knew Existed – Listverse
Government jobs are known to offer several benefits for employees, but many of those positions are seen as mundane and boring. Not all public sector jobs require workers to park…
Drill, baby drill? Trump policies will hurt climate ― but US green transition is underway
Restrictions on offshore oil drilling in the United States are under threat.Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Higher greenhouse-gas emissions, fewer jobs, more expensive energy and dirtier air that kills more people: researchers…
Can you ever experience true silence? Intimate exhibition offers insight
Silence Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Paris Until 31 August 2025 The Big Bang was spectacularly misnamed, having been “the quietest firework of all time”. Sound waves need matter…
How the World Health Organization can thrive without the United States
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is keen to maintain ‘constructive dialogue’ with the United States.Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty The executive board of the World Health Organization (WHO) is meeting this week,…
How are researchers using AI? Survey reveals pros and cons for science
Researchers think that for some tasks, generative AI tools can already do a better job than humans. Credit: Getty Using artificial intelligence (AI) tools for processes such as preparing manuscripts,…
Grand Canyons on the Moon
The Schrödinger impact crater sits near to the Moon’s south pole. Sprouting off it are two canyons — called Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck — each comparable in size to…
How scientists labour on love and loss
Credit: Iryna Veklich/Getty Relationships are central to the human experience. Over the course of a lifetime, most of us have, want, lose or think about them. But the study of…
The world must move forwards with plastics treaty
Those attending the fifth meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a global plastics treaty (see Nature https://doi.org/n2b3; 2024) failed to reach an agreement — largely because of concerns about…
Report both positive and negative effects of gene changes on crops
The Perspective article ‘Promises and challenges of crop translational genomics’ highlights some of the difficulties of translating research findings into crop-breeding applications (see M. Mascher et al. Nature 636, 585–593;…