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Glueballs are made of gluons, which bind quarks to form protons and neutrons.Credit: Sefa kart/Getty After almost two decades of searching, a team of physicists in China says it has observed strong evidence of a mysterious particle called a glueball that is made entirely of force-carrying particles. Researchers at the Beijing Spectrometer III (BESIII) Collaboration,
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Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Solar prominences protruding from the Sun’s corona during a total solar eclipse in Dallas in 2024.Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber On 12 August, researchers will get roughly two minutes to study the Sun’s outermost layer — the solar
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The video opens with a man in his 80s slumped in a hospital bed, his face hollow as he scrunches his eyes. A jump cut advances the scene three days: the man is alert now, words gathering as he identifies his son. Six months later, he is pictured sitting upright, engaged in conversation. His gaze
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Macamo then takes the soil samples back to the laboratory to process them: here, the samples are dried, weighed, burned and weighed again. Burning them releases CO2 from the organic matter, so Macamo can estimate the carbon content by measuring the difference in mass between the dried and the burnt samples. Macamo, who did her
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Credit: keport/iStock via Getty A free webinar on how to use artificial intelligence in science job applications is now available to view on demand. The live event, hosted by Nature’s Careers team in June, investigates AI’s growing role in science recruitment, and how jobseekers can use it responsibly and effectively to draft CVs, cover letters
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