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Malaysia is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. It is full of lush terrain and a variety of natural wonders that aren’t like anywhere else. Whether you’re looking for natural beauty or eager to explore the culture of the area, Malaysia has something for everyone. Natural Beauty is Everywhere in Malaysia Are

Frank Close, Trinity: The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History (Allen Lane, 2019) reviewed by Ann Finkbeiner. Angela Saini, Superior (Beacon, 2019) reviewed by Robin Nelson. Glass eyes of a type used in the twentieth century for ‘racial’ classification.Credit: David Harrison Daniel Kennefick, No Shadow of a Doubt (Princeton, 2019) reviewed

We all know that someone who is not a people person or hates people. Sometimes, he or she ends up disliking everyone. If you know folks who do believe that hell is other people, we found the perfect gifts for them. Here are five gifts you can give to the person in your life who

As an amphibian biologist, I’m particularly obsessed with frogs, which are important in ecosystems because they eat insects and are themselves eaten by birds and reptiles. But frogs are vulnerable: 40% of amphibian species worldwide are at risk of extinction. We’ve already lost at least four frog species in Australia. By going into the field

Credit: Sylvain Cherkaoui/Reuters Fish are a source of micronutrients that help to prevent nutrient-deficiency diseases. For 43 countries, Hicks et al. mapped the relationship between the fish-derived nutrients available from fisheries’ catches and the prevalence of such diseases. Their data demonstrate that catches in some developing countries should be enough to meet the key micronutrient

Have you ever wondered why whales are big but aren’t bigger? Science now has an explanation for it. A new study says that the whale’s body size is influenced by how whales capture their prey and how much food is available, researchers reported Thursday in the journal Science. The study involved 90 blue whales, the most massive

Boris Johnson remains UK prime minister after the Conservative party wins the election with a substantial majority.Credit: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg/Getty The United Kingdom is now firmly on the path towards leaving the European Union, after the Conservative party won a majority of 79 seats in yesterday’s general election — a result that has major implications for

Christmas is coming, and right now you are probably rushing on preparing gifts. Whether it is for yours or some other children who are so special to you that you want to give them toys on Christmas, you must check if it is eco-friendly. After all, most plastic items contain ingredients that can be harmful

US authorities have dropped charges against two researchers accused of attempting to export chemicals to Iran in violation of trade sanctions. The decision follows a prisoner swap in which the United States freed a third researcher who was charged alongside them — and imprisoned. Iran released a jailed US researcher in exchange and both were

NIH director Francis Collins has faced criticism for not moving faster to strengthen his agency’s policies on harassment.Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Nearly 40% of women trainees polled by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) between January and March 2019 reported being sexually harassment at work. Those are the results of a staff survey delivered

There are more than 90 types of essential oils each with its own unique aromas and qualities. Essential oils are used by people in their everyday routines for health, beauty and home care benefits but with so many different types it can be difficult to determine which essential oils are right for you.  To make

From planetary change to geopolitical recalibrations, 2019 has been convulsive. The year saw millions worldwide protesting against governmental inaction on the cascading crises in the global environment. Anxiety over nuclear annihilation vied with concerns over the repugnant resurgence of ‘race science’ and the emergent ethics of gene editing. Amid the tumult, Nature asked seven scientists,

(Photo : Qube)Plastiqube is made of at least 1.6 kilogram of waste plastic. A group of university students in India developed a sturdy brick made from plastic waste. The supposed project was an initiative of Abhishek Banerjee with his classmates Agnimitra Sengupta, Ankan Podder, and Utsav Bhattacharyya, who are all students of Jadavpur University. In 2017, they

Credit: Constantine Johnny/Getty Being good at communication isn’t an attribute we are born with. Effective communication must be taught and practised. I repeatedly observe the same three barriers to effective science communication. 1. We don’t teach researchers how to communicate. Researchers who are asked to communicate as a part of their job should be given

The number of published papers with more than 1,000 authors has risen.Credit: Alamy The number of research papers with more than 1,000 authors has more than doubled in the past 5 years, a study of millions of articles indexed by the Web of Science (WoS) database has found. Between 2009 and 2013, 573 manuscripts listing

Dear nature lovers, we have some great news! The Dutch online booking platform for holidays in nature is trying to stop climate change and save the world together with your help. How? For every night you spend in one of their homes, they are planting one tree! Want to know more? Visit their website https://www.nature.house/

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here The Mars InSight lander’s seismometer contains three extremely sensitive sensors nestled inside a dome to protect them from wind.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Hundreds of quakes detected by NASA’s InSight mission from its landing site near the Martian equator

Artificial Intelligence has held the curiosity and attention of the general populace for decades. Whether it be in the form of books, films, or TedTalks, people have always had the occasion to question the ethics and morality surrounding AI. But artificial intelligence is more than fantastical crime-fighting medical companions or malevolent sentient computers capable of

The Mars InSight lander’s seismometer contains three extremely sensitive sensors nestled inside a dome to protect them from wind.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech San Francisco, California The marsquakes are coming fast and furious. From its landing site near the Martian equator, NASA’s InSight mission is detecting about two quakes per day — and the rate is going up.

The surface of the asteroid Bennu has turned out to be rockier than scientists thought it would be.Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona San Francisco, California NASA has chosen the spot on the asteroid Bennu where it will attempt to land a spacecraft next year and hoover up bits of rock and dirt before returning to Earth.

What is Gastric Bypass Surgery? Gastric bypass is a type of weight loss, or bariatric surgery, that helps you lose weight and keep it off by making the stomach smaller. and re-routing part of the digestive system. Additionally, studies have shown that levels of the hunger hormone known as ghrelin, which triggers appetite, are significantly

Davide Vannoni pictured in 2017.Credit: Lapone/Fotogramma/Ropi/Zuma The disgraced stem-cell entrepreneur Davide Vannoni, who in the past decade treated hundreds of people in Italy with an unproven treatment that health authorities considered ineffective and potentially dangerous, died on 10 December after a long illness. He was 53. His death brings to an end an extraordinary saga

Tropical glaciers in South America and Africa started retreating simultaneously at the end of the last Ice Age - about 20,000 years ago, according to a Dartmouth study. The research, published in Science Advances, backs the exceptional scientific consensus on the role of carbon dioxide in making climate change but adds further levels of complexity to understanding Earth’s climate and how ice

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1. Boyd, B. The evolution of stories: from mimesis to language, from fact to fiction. Wiley Interdiscip. Rev. Cogn. Sci. 9, e1444 (2018). Google Scholar 2. Azéma, M. & Rivère, F. Animation in Palaeolithic art: a pre-echo of cinema. Antiquity 86, 316–324 (2012). Article Google Scholar 3. Mithen, S. in Becoming Human: Innovation in Prehistoric

(Photo : pixabay) Some people just want a new beginning, and it’s always a good time to have one! If you have grown tired of your current living situation and town, it may be time to shake things up. There is nothing like experiencing a brand new city for the first time. You might live

A smartphone snaps an image of curved OLED TVs at an electronics trade fair.Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images As scientists race to find low-carbon technologies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, energy is a hot research topic in materials science. It is obvious, then, that the search for better batteries is a focus for some emerging stars in

Space debris has been cluttering the space just beyond the Earth’s clouds and outside of the average person’s notice. Whenever satellites are launched into space, they are expected to continue to follow a path of orbit to bounce a signal back to ground stations. These are built to last in outer space, but when they

China is taking dramatic steps to improve the quality and international reputation of its home-grown science journals. Publishers of hundreds of Chinese titles will receive generous government funding as part of a major five-year plan to elevate the country’s publications to among the world’s best. The government said in August that it wants to publish

Behavioural science was key to pedestrianizing the approach to London’s busy Oxford Street.Credit: Loop Images/UIG/Getty There was a time when ‘sustainable development’ meant economic development, or perpetual economic growth — not, as we know it today, environmentally sustainable development. The change in meaning can be traced to the 1987 report Our Common Future, chaired by

The Montreal Protocol, an international agreement signed in 1987 to stop chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) from destroying the ozone layer, now seems to be the first successful  international treaty to slow the rate of global warming. New research published today in Environmental Research Letters has revealed that today’s global heats are considerably lower. The Earth will be least 1 degree

Modern research is far removed from that done by the independent scientist of Charles Darwin’s day. But that model still underpins what we reward. And the tension is showing. The number of authors listed on published papers has increased fivefold. But our system of incentives — accreted haphazardly as science evolved from hobby to career

A trip to New York City is on a lot of bucket lists. It is a city of infinite possibilities. Full of locations that have been immortalized by movies and literature for centuries – New York is usually never a disappointing trip. But we should not forget that while New York is beautiful and adventurous,

Twentieth century German–Swiss philosopher Karl Jaspers is best-known proponent of Axial Age theory.Credit: Fritz Eschen/ullstein bild/Getty It’s an idea that has been influential for more than 200 years: around the middle of the first millennium BC, humanity passed through a psychological watershed and became modern. This ‘Axial Age’ transformed an archaic world of divine rulers,

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here Police officers patrolling in Kashgar, a city in China’s western Xinjiang region. Credit: Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Springer Nature and Wiley are reviewing the ethics of publishing DNA or facial-recognition research involving scientists backed by China’s government to

When you research the benefits of CBD, you’ll find information about a few different things. One of those things is that CBD can support a “feeling of calm.” But when you just read that with no other context, it’s easy to become confused. What does it mean to have a feeling of general calm? What

Pepper the robot greets visitors to Berlin’s Futurium.Credit: David von Becker Thirty years ago, the future became passé. When the Berlin Wall fell in late 1989 and the communist regimes that hid behind it collapsed, political scientist Francis Fukuyama called the event “the end of history”. But he also cast it as the finale of

The beloved clownfish popularized in “Finding Nemo” may be about to vanish for good as its unique mating habits put it at risk from climate change, according to scientists. Researchers from France’s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and colleagues observed the vibrantly colored clownfish - which live in anemones – for

The earthquake that devastated San Francisco, California, in 1906 arose from the San Andreas fault — which might be linked to another major fault zone to the north.Credit: Underwood Archives/Getty Two of North America’s most fearsome earthquake zones could be linked. A controversial study argues that at least eight times in the past 3,000 years,

While there is no cure for cancer and there is no treatment to stop a person from getting cancer there is a vaccine that can reduce the risk of getting a specific type of cancer. HPV is a type of cancer that affects the reproductive system and can be easily passed with sexual contact. There

Police officers patrolling in Kashgar, a city in China’s western Xinjiang region. Credit: Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Two science publishers are reviewing the ethics of research papers in which scientists backed by China’s government used DNA or facial-recognition technology to study minority groups in the country, such as the predominantly Muslim Uyghur population. Springer Nature (which publishes

Whether you like it or not, parasites live within your intestines. Some parasites do not affect your daily life. Other parasites can cause or affect severe health problems in your body.  You might think of a parasite as a large creature destroying your internal organs, but that’s only partially correct. Most parasites are small invaders

Electrons (orange circles) and light pulses (pink) cross paths at a memory cell (small red bar). Both types of signal can encode information on the cell. Credit: Nikolaos Farmakidis Optics and photonics 06 December 2019 A memory-storage device can bank information delivered by either light or electronic signals. Physicists have found a way to squeeze

Elena Schneider-Futschik encourages scientists to take active part in academic societies. Credit: Gavan Mitchell/The University of Melbourne As a freshly minted PhD student at my first big conference, I was overwhelmed by the packed scientific programme and slightly intimidated by all the smart attendees. It was 2015, and I was one of more than 7,000

Almost everyone is having a smartphone and utilizing various types of mobile applications as per their needs. Having an iPhone is a dream for many of us and making use of mobile applications in the iPhone is a challenging one for each customer. This is because; Apple iPhones are viewed as a symbol of Pride

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here The earthquake that devastated San Francisco, California, in 1906 arose from the San Andreas fault — which might be linked to another major fault zone to the north.Credit: Underwood Archives/Getty Two of North America’s most fearsome

Cybersecurity concerns are evolving and with data privacy laws cracking down on the way companies manage consumer data, one of the biggest questions for businesses is how to develop security strategies that could effectively combat data breaches, malware, and limit vulnerabilities within the already existing system.  Trend Micro cites out of date security systems, weak

Cells of Wilms tumour (artificially coloured), a cancer that often arises from expansive patches of tissue harbouring telltale DNA changes. Credit: National Cancer Institute/SPL Cancer 06 December 2019 Genetic changes in utero set the scene for a paediatric kidney tumour. A childhood kidney cancer often arises from tissue that becomes predisposed to cancer during an