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Spain’s environment minister has written to prosecutors to warn of “an alarming increase” in hate speech and social media attacks directed against climate science communicators, meteorologists…

People with PhDs say they spent years during their studies feeling exhausted and lost their work–life balance. Credit: GettyI have just started the fourth year of…

Four crew members have left the International Space Station (ISS) and are heading back to Earth after a medical issue prompted their mission to be cut…

Abas, N. et al. Natural and synthetic refrigerants, global warming: a review. Renew. Sustain. Energy Rev. 90, 557–569 (2018).Article  Google Scholar  Garimella, S. et al. Realistic…

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human brain?Outside of the theory itself being devised by conscious humans…

Ian Sample puts listeners’ questions on dreams and nightmares to Dr Michelle Carr, director of the Dream Engineering Laboratory in Montreal’s Centre for Advanced Research in…

Graduate students often struggle with large, long-term writing projects.Credit: Westend61/GettyMany of us fear the blank page. Writing is as much a part of science as experimentation,…

NASA’s medical evacuation of four astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) is officially underway. On Wednesday at 5:20 P.M. EST, a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule…

Researchers have shed light on the final centuries of the woolly rhinoceros after studying a hairy lump of meat from the stomach of an ancient wolf…

Schultz, W., Dayan, P. & Montague, P. R. A neural substrate of prediction and reward. Science 275, 1593–1599 (1997).Article  PubMed  Google Scholar  Keller, G. B. &…