You have full access to this article through your institution. Hello Nature Readers, would you like to receive this report in your inbox for free every day? Register here. Credit: ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute An invertebrate known as a siphonophore swims 552 meters deep in the tropical South Atlantic Ocean and is one of 31
You have full access to this article through your institution. Hello Nature Readers, would you like to receive this report in your inbox for free every day? Register here. The mountain bongo is found only in the montane forests of Kenya and there are believed to be fewer than 100 animals in the wild. (Mountain
When tectonic plates move away from each other, lava can spill onto the sea floor along mid-ocean ridges.Credit: Doug Perrine/Nature Picture Library/SPL Geophysicists have captured, for the first time, the ocean floor in the act of separating at one of its seams. Using a set of more than 20 measuring stations placed in a 100-kilometer-long
You have full access to this article through your institution. Hello Nature Readers, would you like to receive this report in your inbox for free every day? Register here. Shallow-water octopuses appear to have acquired their protein-producing mutation about 100 million years ago, around the same time they developed larger brains.Credit: Norbert Wu/Minden Pictures via
The U.S. National Science Foundation, one of the world’s largest funders of fundamental science, is expected to sharply reduce spending across most of its directorates.Credit: IB/Alamy Photography The US National Science Foundation (NSF) plans to expropriate money from its core science programs to fund an initiative by the White House Office of Science and Technology
Posting studies to preprint servers like bioRxiv is common practice in many scientific fields.Credit: Michael Szebor/Nature The central conclusions of biomedical preprints rarely change after peer review in a journal.1according to a study published on the preprint server bioRxiv this month. The research also found that studies that first appeared as preprints are retracted at