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People whose Facebook posts seem to match up fairly closely with their personalities report more life satisfaction than those whose posts and personalities diverge. Credit: Alamy Psychology 09 October 2020 Authentic self-expression on social media is linked to enhanced mood. When social media overflows with friends’ good news, it can be tempting to play up

The rising nitrous oxide emissions from intensive farming threaten the attainment of the Paris Agreement goals, accelerating global warming and making it likely the planet will surpass the 2º C increase limit.  The problem with intensive farming Intensive farming threatens to jeopardize our chances of achieving the Paris Agreement’s terms concerning climate change. The growing livestock populations and increased artificial fertilizer use increase

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here Dado Ruvic/Reuters China announced today that it will join COVAX, the international coalition that aims to fairly distribute COVID-19 vaccines. The effort — run by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations; and

Wildfires are causing significant negative impacts on people’s physical and emotional health and California’s economy. Apocalyptic Scenario A report from the BBC has described the wildfire situation this summer as “apocalyptic.” According to a resident, Asha Karim, they narrowly escaped being victims of the fires, causing them to take a grueling 13-mile walk. On the way back, they saw vehicles

Asian Americans have been protesting anti-China rhetoric that has arisen in the United States because of the COVID-19 pandemic.Credit: Steven Senne/AP/Shutterstock An Asian American civil-rights group has launched an effort to support Chinese and Chinese American scientists who are facing inquiries from law enforcement as a result of the United States’ increased crack-down on foreign

A ‘diamond ring’ can be fabricated in 45-60 seconds by shining beams of light on a vat of specialized resin. Credit: C.C. Cook et al./Adv. Mater. Materials science 09 October 2020 New ingredients allow a printing technique that once produced only brittle objects to turn out items that are pliable or sturdy. From a vat

Two months have not yet passed, and Louisiana has not yet recovered from the destruction of the last hurricane, which came it is the way. However, it is already bracing for Hurricane Delta as it goes north to the Gulf this Thursday from the Yucatan Peninsula. According to forecasters, this storm could arrive by Friday and may bear winds

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here Kelly Barnes/Getty This is Floki, a springer spaniel that scientists at the University of Adelaide in Australia are training to detect signs of coronavirus infection in human sweat. The research is part of an international effort

It is essential to be ready with crucial plans and preparations needed for this year’s peak Atlantic hurricane season and other natural disasters. Peak season approaching The peak of 2020’s record Atlantic hurricane season is coming to the East, along with the raging wildfires in the West. According to Tampa, Florida veteran emergency manager Chauncia Willis,

Smells like a rose: a mutation affects how people perceive the fumes wafting off pungent fish. Credit: Jón Gústafsson/deCODE Genetics – Amgen Inc Genetics 08 October 2020 When exposed to the reek of fish, people with a particular mutation tend to misidentify the odour — or not detect it at all. The pungent aroma of

Chinese vaccine maker Sinovac is trialling its COVID-19 vaccine in Brazil.Credit: Silvio Avila/AFP/Getty In the race for a coronavirus vaccine, China is making bold promises. A Chinese health official has publicly pledged that an effective coronavirus vaccine will be available by the end of the year. The country has also committed to sharing its vaccines

A meteor fireball lit up Mexico’s sky together with the arrival of Hurricane Delta and minor earthquakes. The fireball was seen last Tuesday night in the skies over the northeastern region of Mexico. Large Fireball With Hurricane Delta and Earthquakes The fireball meteor was most clearly seen over Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León, located near the US border. It came at approximately 10:14

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Red seaweed has been found by researchers from UC Davis to reduce the expulsion of methane by cattle through ‘belching,’ and it can help alleviate climate change and global warming. Reduced Methane Emissions This was the finding of a new study by the University of California Davis scientists. Red seaweed has been shown to cause a dramatic decrease in emissions of methane from cattle. Past

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Researchers at the CSIRO are developing a COVID-19 vaccine.Credit: Scott McNaughton/The Age/Getty Australia’s universities and national science agency have been thrown a lifeline in yesterday’s budget, the country’s first since the pandemic began. As part of a major spending spree designed to kick-start the economy, universities are set to receive Aus$1 billion (US$710 million) in

The search for missing persons in the wake of France-Italy floods in Alpine villages and on nearby coast is faced with another gruesome challenge: finding the corpse of bodies from a cemetery damaged by violent rains and floods at the height of Storm Alex. In France, the affected areas were declared natural disaster zones. President

When her Danish colleagues first suggested distributing protective cloth face masks to people in Guinea-Bissau to stem the spread of the coronavirus, Christine Benn wasn’t so sure. “I said, ‘Yeah, that might be good, but there’s limited data on whether face masks are actually effective,’” says Benn, a global-health researcher at the University of Southern

It is a current dilemma if old sea oil rigs should be left in the sea or not, and the merits of leaving them are being discussed, including economic, environmental, and social benefits.  Leaving Artificial Structures at Sea The decommissioning of the offshore gas and oil infrastructure of the UK will cost 24 billion pounds in taxpayer money, as estimated by HMRC.

An official prepares ballot boxes for Indonesia’s 2019 election.Credit: Willy Kurniawan/Reuters Since Nature’s earliest issues, we have been publishing news, commentary and primary research on science and politics. But why does a journal of science need to cover politics? It’s an important question that readers often ask. This week, Nature reporters outline what the impact

Credit: Alamy Three physicists have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries relating to the most massive and mysterious objects in the Universe — black holes. British physicist Roger Penrose, 89, receives half the prize for theoretical work that in 1965 showed how Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity should result in the

Tropical Storm Delta has recently formed in the Caribbean and is expected to become a hurricane as it makes its way to the US coast later this week, the National Hurricane Center reported on Monday morning.  The storm is expected to gain its strength as it will be moving into the Gulf of Mexico in the

Trump has repeatedly undercut messages from public-health officials such as those on the White House coronavirus task force, including its coordinator Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.Credit: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters Since he took office in January 2017, US President Donald Trump has not made science a priority;

The playful teasing behavior of apes, as seen in human toddlers and infants, can shed light on humor’s evolution. Joking in Young Humans Human toddlers and infants already make jokes even before they learn the art of talking. They know how to play games and similar actions that provoke reactions from adults.  A new study showed that non-human apes such as orangutans and gorillas also

A binary system includes a star (centre; artist’s impression) and an unseen black hole. Such a system can evolve into a pairing of lopsided black holes. Credit: Katarzyna Drewniany Astronomy and astrophysics 05 October 2020 A merger between two black holes of vastly different masses might have stemmed from a relationship between two unequal stars.

Credit: Alamy A trio of scientists who identified and characterized the virus responsible for many cases of hepatitis and liver disease — hepatitis C — are the recipients of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology of Medicine. The winners are Harvey Alter, at the US National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland; Michael Houghton, now

The Antarctic’s melting snow has revealed the frozen remains of penguins as old as 800 years to 5,000 years. With the entire world warming up and surpassing the 1.1º C threshold in temperature increase, the ice sheets worldwide are melting, and exposing Viking remains, ancient viruses, methane, diesel, and now, dead penguins.  A Discovery On the coast of the Antarctic at Cape Irizar, the researchers who

Police are filing aggravated animal cruelty to a Newnan resident after finding a dead, malnourished puppy chained to a tree in his backyard. On Wednesday morning, investigators of the Newnan Police Department responded to probation compliance check on Smith Street and discovered a deceased puppy. (Photo : Pixabay)Police are filing aggravated animal cruelty to a

According to analysts, green hydrogen produced from solar and wind energy may become the most inexpensive “transformative fuel,” as termed by Australia’s government. Developed by this Decade The government wanted to prioritize “clean hydrogen” as the low-emissions technology, which will eventually replace fossil fuels for transportation, electric power, and industry to help eliminate carbon emissions. The government’s recent statement on this technology

Scholarly journals are under pressure to become more freely accessible.Credit: Getty One of the world’s richest biomedical research organizations, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), announced on 1 October that it will require scientists it funds to make papers open access (OA) as soon as they are published — a change to its current policy,

October 14 is a National Fossil Day. To celebrate the occasion, we have marked some places in the U.S. where you can go to help you satisfy the fancy of your fossil-obsessed kids at home or perhaps a fossil junkie like yourself. Lonely Planet and Smithsonian Magazine featured several sights that you and your family may visit to celebrate

Joe Biden is the Democratic candidate for US president.Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Election Day in the United States is a little more than a month away, and scientists are watching the outcome of the presidential race closely. President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, actions to downplay climate change and perpetuation of misinformation have horrified

The XENON1T is one experiment that has been hunting for dark matter.Credit: Enrico Sacchetti Physicists are hatching a plan to give a popular but elusive dark-matter candidate a last chance to reveal itself. For decades, physicists have hypothesized that weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are the strongest candidate for dark matter — the mysterious substance

A firefighter in Shasta County rescued a mountain lion cub, which is believed to be only three to four weeks old, and brought the cub to Oakland Zoo for further treatment, According to the Oakland Zoo, the orphaned mountain lion is recovering from burns as the three-and-a-half pound cub had cut whiskers, and its paws are badly

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here Joe Biden is the Democratic candidate for US president.Credit: Alex Wong/Getty US presidential hopeful Joe Biden has promised to get back behind the World Health Organization, rejoin the Paris climate accord and push forward on an

Cocoa is among the most popular crops in the world, and a new study has shown that to increase its yield, as well as the income of small scale farmers, hand pollination is a better option to adopt instead of the intensive use of agrochemicals. (Photo: Pixabay)Cocoa is among the most popular crops in the

Venus’s atmosphere is highly acidic and contains very little water.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The surprise discovery of gas that could be a sign of life on Venus has reignited scientific interest in Earth’s closest neighbour. Researchers and space agencies worldwide are now racing to turn their instruments — both on Earth and in space — towards the

The Rio Tinto mine has destroyed the island of Bougainville with war, human rights abuse, and environmental poisoning. An estimated 156 residents of Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) Autonomous Region of Bougainville submitted a petition to the government of Australia to make Rio Tinto responsible for the devastation caused by the copper and gold mine they abandoned.

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here Workers carry out a burial wearing full protective equipment at Pondok Ranggon COVID-19 cemetery in Jakarta.Credit: Mast Irham/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Nine months into the coronavirus pandemic, the official global death toll has now exceeded one million people. Researchers

Figure 1 | Rivers of meltwater carve into the Greenland ice sheet.Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty The Greenland ice sheet is losing ice at an increasing rate, owing to rising air and ocean temperatures1,2. Melting of the ice sheet is currently increasing global mean sea level by about 0.7 millimetres per year (see go.nature.com/3mrkuw8), but models predict3

Zoo’s Conservation work, such as breeding programs for rare species, is now threatened to closure due to the COVID-19 lockdown related funding crisis.  The lockdown and reduced number of visitors meant substantial income loss for zoos, mostly relying on the entrance to support its operations. This impacts the facility’s ability to care for rare species.

A selection of books read by the SPEAK group.Credit: Duke SPEAK We are members of a group of early-career researchers at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, which meets every four to six weeks to discuss inequalities in science and society. Four years ago, two of us founded the group to discuss the issues we

The Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society has issued a new publication with a checklist of breeding guidelines to plant breeders and farmers of crops, authored by researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew and the University of Portsmouth.  It is a formula for growing crops more sustainably and helping its users better understand and improve their plants. It helps increase yield and growth using their

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A water saver device innovation in UK toilets meant to save water for consumers is wasting billions of liters each week. Approximately 400 million liters or 88 million gallons are wasted from leaks each day. Dual-flushing toilets A lot of the waste comes from dual-flushing toilets marketed as water-saving devices. According to a water company, waste comes from their

Hundreds of people in the nineteenth-century United States reported seeing the Gloucester Sea Serpent (above), which was probably a marine creature bedecked with fishing debris. Credit: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Fisheries 30 September 2020 Centuries-old ‘unidentified marine objects’ hint that sea creatures have been getting entangled in fishing lines since before the invention of

There had been significant changes in the rim of Halema’uma’u crater in the active Kilauea volcano. A year after. Halema’uma’u Crater partially collapsed, and a hot water lake has been slowly rising from it to form a deadly crater lake. Eric Mack of Forbes made interesting monitoring of the lake since its eruption in 2018 to develop the