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More than 70 bird species adorn their nests with snakeskin, a decorating trick that could help to fend off predators1.…

Precise timekeeping helps us in our daily lives: from pinpointing your precise location with GPS to synchronising financial deals to…

Download the 27 December long read podcast Marc Abrahams created the Ig Nobel prizes in 1991, after years of collecting…

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Nature, Published online: 23 December 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-04123-5 Pupil contractions in a talking parrot, and how ancient numerals were derived from…

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a hero was born: Leif Penguinson, a Rockhopper penguin on a mission to…

RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 18 December 2024 A rare isotope, thorium-229, exhibits a unique low-energy nuclear transition that could form the basis…

As climate change and artificial intelligence (AI) reshape the world, some say that reality is starting to look a lot…

Most neutrinos that stream through Earth are produced by fusion reactions in the Sun.Credit: NASA/Goddard/SDO Physicists in Italy and China…

Our vector mapping includes the local real-space detection of the orientation of the altermagnetic order vector, L = M1 − M2, with respect to…