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Humans and their livestock have sheltered in this Saudi Arabian cave for 10,000 years
Saudi herders have travelled the same routes for millennia, cave discovery suggests.
- Gillian Dohrn
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How do otters protect salt marshes from erosion? Shellfishly
Sea otters inadvertently protect the vegetation that binds sandy shorelines together.
- Jude Coleman
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People go the extra mile for food
GPS data reveal that people travel far from home to buy food in the United States, challenging ideas about how access to food relates to unhealthy eating habits.
- Abigail Klopper
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Our ancestors lost nearly 99% of their population, 900,000 years ago
A roundup of stories from the Nature Briefing, including how human ancestors came close to extinction, historic pollution in Antarctica, and the AI that predicts smell from a compound's structure.
- Benjamin Thompson
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Melting glaciers will reveal vast new ecosystems in need of protection
The emerging habitats represent huge ecological shifts and present new challenges for conservation.
- Jeff Tollefson
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Future emergence of new ecosystems caused by glacial retreat
By 2100, the decline of all glaciers outside the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets will produce new terrestrial, marine and freshwater ecosystems, posing both challenges and opportunities for conservation.
- J. B. Bosson
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Matters Arising |
Reply to: Possible magmatic CO2 influence on the Laacher See eruption date
- Frederick Reinig
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What it means to practise values-based research
Environmental scientist Max Liboiron ties principles of humility and accountability to research that respects people and their relationship with the land.
- Spoorthy Raman
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From the archive: ancient timelines and a west-side story of cities
Snippets from Nature’s past.
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From the archive: the Channel tunnel, and a phantom island
Snippets from Nature’s past.
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From the archive: the cell cycle and Antarctic exploration
Snippets from Nature’s past.
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World population hits eight billion — here’s how researchers predict it will grow
United Nations model predicts a slower rate of population growth than was previously estimated.
- David Adam
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Career Column |
It’s time to make science in remote places family-friendly
Melissa Ward Jones and Mette Bendixen share their stories of juggling parenting and fieldwork, and argue that more should be done to help retain scientist-parents, particularly women, in academia.
- Melissa Ward Jones
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Historic dive aims to map Earth’s deepest point like never before
Ocean-mapping specialist Dawn Wright is the first Black person to visit Challenger Deep.
- Freda Kreier
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From the archive: butterfly snacking habits and alpine maps
Snippets from Nature’s past.
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From the archive: comet observation, and the explorer Dr Livingstone found safe
Snippets from Nature’s past.
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From the archive
Nature’s pages feature an obituary of the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, and discuss the problem with naming species after people.
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Global potential for harvesting drinking water from air using solar energy
Mapping of the global potential of atmospheric water harvesting using solar energy shows that it could provide safely managed drinking water for a billion people worldwide based on climate suitability.
- Jackson Lord
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How far will global population rise? Researchers can’t agree
The United Nations forecasts that nearly 11 billion people will be living on Earth at the end of the century, but other demographic research groups project that population will peak earlier and at a much lower level.
- David Adam
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World’s most northern island and climate change’s role in floods
The latest science news, in brief.
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From the archive
Nature’s pages feature a 1921 look at the origin of some English place-names, and an 1871 report of a polar expedition.
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The fraction of the global population at risk of floods is growing
Satellite imaging combined with population data shows that, globally, the number of people living in flood-prone areas is growing faster than is the number living on higher ground — greatly increasing the potential impact of floods.
- Brenden Jongman
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Satellite imaging reveals increased proportion of population exposed to floods
Satellite imagery for the period 2000–2018 reveals that population growth was greater in flood-prone regions than elsewhere, thus exposing a greater proportion of the population to floods.
- B. Tellman
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Precise date for the Laacher See eruption synchronizes the Younger Dryas
A revised date for the Laacher See eruption using measurements of subfossil trees shifts the chronology of European varved lakes relative to the Greenland ice core record, synchronizing the onset of the Younger Dryas across the North Atlantic–European sector.
- Frederick Reinig
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Global prevalence of non-perennial rivers and streams
Non-perennial rivers and streams are mapped globally, showing that more than half of rivers worldwide experience no flow for at least one day per year.
- Mathis Loïc Messager
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The universal visitation law of human mobility
Using large-scale mobility data from diverse cities around the globe, a simple and robust scaling law that captures the temporal and spatial range of population movement is revealed.
- Markus Schläpfer
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The nutritional quality of cereals varies geospatially in Ethiopia and Malawi
Geospatial variation in the micronutrient composition (calcium, iron, selenium and zinc) of staple cereal grains is nutritionally important at subnational scales in Ethiopia and Malawi; these data could be used to improve surveillance of micronutrient deficiencies in the region.
- D. Gashu
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Explaining the icy mystery of the Dyatlov Pass deaths
A sixty-year-old mystery from Soviet Russia could be explained by snow science.
- Shamini Bundell
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Hierarchies defined through human mobility
An analysis of worldwide data finds that human mobility has a hierarchical structure. A proposed model that accounts for such hierarchies reproduces differences in mobility behaviour across genders and levels of urbanization.
- Elsa Arcaute
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The scales of human mobility
A model shows that human mobility is organized within hierarchical containers that coincide with familiar scales and that a power-law distribution emerges when movements between different containers are combined.
- Laura Alessandretti
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The growth equation of cities
A theoretical model in the form of a stochastic differential equation is proposed that describes, more accurately than previous models, the population evolution of cities, revealing that rare but very large interurban migration is a dominant factor.
- Vincent Verbavatz
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Urban sprawl overspreads Earth at an unprecedented speed
Satellite imagery shows that although the global population is growing, urban areas are growing even faster.
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From the archive
How Nature reported the first attempt to fly across the whole of Africa in 1920, and the heat and perspiration produced by cows, in 1970.
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From the archive
How Nature reported an interview with Einstein from 1920, and fears that England was losing the race to reach the North Pole, from 1870.
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From the archive
How Nature reported the discovery of ancient human bones in Australia in 1970, and how the First World War revolutionized the production of maps of France.
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Fighting fire with science
Wildfires are becoming more and more frequent around the world, making expertise in the field a hot commodity.
- Stav Dimitropoulos
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Egypt stands to benefit from sharing its latest discoveries with all Egyptologists
When the time is right, the country should consider inviting researchers from around the world to study the latest finds from its ancient past.
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Rare mummified lions add to Egyptology buzz
Ancient cats come hot on the heels of a stunning human-coffin find as Egypt keeps research on the artefacts to itself, for now.
- Antoaneta Roussi
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Career Column |
How to welcome a new international researcher into your team
Lara Pivodic shares advice on saying ‘hello’ to the latest member of your research group.
- Lara Pivodic
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Research Highlight |
Humans are drying out Europe’s ancient peat bogs
Climate change and peat cutting are altering ecosystems, some of them centuries old.
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From the archive
How Nature reported a satellite TV system in India in 1969, and an explorer who learnt survival techniques from indigenous Arctic groups in 1919.
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Books & Arts |
Einstein in Britain, worlds on the ebb, and a new angle on climate engineering: Books in brief
Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week’s best science picks.
- Barbara Kiser
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Science in Europe: by the numbers
The region already hosts some of the world’s leading scientific countries, and some of its smaller states are quickly catching up.
- Richard Van Noorden
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Mapping HIV prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa between 2000 and 2017
Fine-scale estimates of the prevalence of HIV in adults across sub-Saharan Africa reveal substantial within-country variation and local differences in both the direction and rate of change in the prevalence of HIV between 2000 and 2017.
- Laura Dwyer-Lindgren
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Dispatch: a visit to Japan from Europe
PhD student Magdalena Śmiech describes her experience of switching continents and cultures.
- Magdalena Śmiech
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EXCLUSIVE: Tiny animal carcasses found in buried Antarctic lake
The surprise discovery of ancient crustaceans and a tardigrade emerged from a rare mission to drill into a lake sealed off by a kilometre of ice.
- Douglas Fox
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From the archive
How Nature reported the Apollo space missions in 1968, and a proposed aerial survey of the British Isles in 1918.
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Tehran’s drastic sinking exposed by satellite data
Parts of Iran’s capital city, home to 13 million people, are subsiding by 25 centimetres each year.
- Kate Ravilious
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Western Australia’s science finds strength in its isolation
Deep local collaborations and research with regional character are powerful drivers in the state, one of the world’s most remote scientific communities.
- Jack Leeming
Should the Maldives be creating new land?