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Is the telescope pointing the right way?
Nature, Published online: 10 December 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03859-4 This week’s excerpts from Nature’s archive feature reviews of a visit…
Richard Dawkins’s book of the dead is haunted by ghosts of past works
The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie Richard Dawkins Yale Univ. Press (2024) Richard Dawkins, the…
Where does poetry come from?
Nature, Published online: 03 December 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03848-7 Surveying poets on the unconscious sources of their verse, and an…
Why the word scientist was controversial 100 years ago
Nature, Published online: 26 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03771-x The debate about adopting the term scientist, and musings on how…
Setting the stage for using AI in language tasks 50 years ago
Nature, Published online: 19 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03770-y Artificial intelligence for language tasks sparks interest, and optical illusions are…
Why did Earth’s first radio message to alien civilizations leave out half of humanity?
As the electronic signals from our planet expand ever outwards into space, the world is marking 50 years…
Growth area: early studies exploring how tissues and cells grow
Nature, Published online: 12 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03681-y A book discusses interesting insights from studies of growth, and a…
our changing vision of the heavens
Mapping the Infinite Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California 20 October 2024–2 March 2025 Rising Signs Getty…
First DNA from Pompeii body casts illuminates who victims were
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius (artist’s illustration) buried the city of Pompeii, Italy, in at least six metres…
A spider’s windproof web
Nature, Published online: 05 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03467-2 A garden spider innovates to prevent web destruction by gusts of…