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Nature research paper: Aluminium redox catalysis enables cyclotrimerization of alkynes
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Aluminium redox catalysis enables cyclotrimerization of alkynes - Nature
Aluminium redox catalysis is achieved with a low-valent aluminium species, carbazolylaluminylene, enabling cyclotrimerization of alkynes and producing diverse benzene derivatives.
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February 11, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Nature research paper: Aluminium redox catalysis enables cyclotrimerization of alkynes
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Scientists and clinicians do not fully understand the underlying drivers of lymphoedema
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Clearing trapped cholesterol could relieve lymphoedema
Impaired lymphatic function causes cholesterol to accumulate in tissues, driving swelling known as lymphoedema. Lipid clearance could be an effective therapeutic strategy.
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February 11, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Scientists and clinicians do not fully understand the underlying drivers of lymphoedema
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This week on the pod:
🧠 The immune cells that eat waste fats from fruit flies’ brains
🧬 Ancient DNA evidence reveals a nuanced story of the Bell Beaker Expansion
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🧠 The immune cells that eat waste fats from fruit flies’ brains
🧬 Ancient DNA evidence reveals a nuanced story of the Bell Beaker Expansion
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These hungry immune cells tidy sleeping flies’ brains
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 11 February 2026
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February 11, 2026 at 5:40 PM
This week on the pod:
🧠 The immune cells that eat waste fats from fruit flies’ brains
🧬 Ancient DNA evidence reveals a nuanced story of the Bell Beaker Expansion
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🧠 The immune cells that eat waste fats from fruit flies’ brains
🧬 Ancient DNA evidence reveals a nuanced story of the Bell Beaker Expansion
go.nature.com/3MAKJag
The transition to cleaner forms of energy are not happening fast enough to avoid dangerous climate change
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Can the clean-energy revolution save us from climate catastrophe?
Seven charts show the remarkable growth in renewable power and the challenges to ending the fossil-fuel age.
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February 11, 2026 at 5:13 PM
The transition to cleaner forms of energy are not happening fast enough to avoid dangerous climate change
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A western European ‘water world’ was a holdout for hunter-gatherers for thousands of years
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Hunter-gatherers took refuge in European 'water world' for millennia
Ancient inhabitants of the Rhine-Meuse river delta resisted population shifts that transformed most of Europe — until they helped catalyse the expansion of ‘Bell Beaker’ culture.
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February 11, 2026 at 4:48 PM
A western European ‘water world’ was a holdout for hunter-gatherers for thousands of years
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OTD 10 years ago, LIGO detected gravitational waves for the first time.
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Here's how @castelvecchi.bsky.social reported on it: www.nature.com/articles/530...
February 11, 2026 at 4:22 PM
OTD 10 years ago, LIGO detected gravitational waves for the first time.
Here's how @castelvecchi.bsky.social reported on it: www.nature.com/articles/530...
Here's how @castelvecchi.bsky.social reported on it: www.nature.com/articles/530...
This type of board game was previously not know to exist in Europe before the Middle Ages
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An ancient Roman game board’s secrets are revealed — with AI’s help
Finding suggests that ‘blocking games’ were played in Europe centuries earlier than realized.
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February 11, 2026 at 4:03 PM
This type of board game was previously not know to exist in Europe before the Middle Ages
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Fears over adverse consequences and associated policy restrictions mean that pregnant people have been largely excluded from clinical trials
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What drugs are safe during pregnancy? There’s a shocking lack of data
Drug trials have typically excluded pregnant people for safety reasons. But that’s now starting to change.
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February 11, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Fears over adverse consequences and associated policy restrictions mean that pregnant people have been largely excluded from clinical trials
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Environmental sociologist Dorceta Taylor has helped her field to be more welcoming to researchers of colour
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My professor said ‘Black people are not interested in the environment’. I set out to prove him wrong
Environmental sociologist Dorceta Taylor has helped her field to be more welcoming to researchers of colour.
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February 11, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Environmental sociologist Dorceta Taylor has helped her field to be more welcoming to researchers of colour
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Documents that lay out a research group’s ethos and practical guidelines are becoming increasingly popular in the academic community
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Lab morale got you down? Try a handbook
Documents that lay out a research group’s ethos and practical guidelines are becoming increasingly popular in the academic community.
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February 11, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Documents that lay out a research group’s ethos and practical guidelines are becoming increasingly popular in the academic community
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Sensory neurons have emerged as unexpected contributors to cancer progression, helping to drive tumour growth and invasion
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A tumour-to-brain pathway hinders anticancer defences
Sensory neurons detect internal and external cues in organs and send this information to the brain. Lung cancer exploits this pathway to lessen immune responses.
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February 10, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Sensory neurons have emerged as unexpected contributors to cancer progression, helping to drive tumour growth and invasion
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China going it alone in biotechnology would be a backwards step — for China and the rest of the world
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China’s biotech boom: why the nation must collaborate to stay ahead
Increased geopolitical tensions are prompting some in China to argue that the country should go it alone in biotechnology. That would be a backwards step — for China and the rest of the world.
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February 10, 2026 at 4:20 PM
China going it alone in biotechnology would be a backwards step — for China and the rest of the world
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In the moments after the Big Bang, most of the visible matter in the present-day Universe existed as a hot ‘soup’ that included fundamental particles called quarks
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Particle collisions cast light on how matter forms from seemingly empty space
Fundamental particles called quarks can be created in quantum-correlated pairs. These correlations can be passed on to larger particles that form from the quarks.
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February 10, 2026 at 9:26 AM
In the moments after the Big Bang, most of the visible matter in the present-day Universe existed as a hot ‘soup’ that included fundamental particles called quarks
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Inventor Josh Miele says that accelerating change requires uprooting social attitudes about blindness and other disabilities
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My mission to make life more user friendly for the disability community
Inventor Josh Miele says that accelerating change requires uprooting social attitudes about blindness and other disabilities.
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February 9, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Inventor Josh Miele says that accelerating change requires uprooting social attitudes about blindness and other disabilities
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Book review 📚 The dark side of green technology: what do electric vehicles really cost?
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The dark side of green technology: what do electric vehicles really cost?
A powerful book reveals the corrupt deals and human exploitation behind the global scramble for strategic metals.
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February 9, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Book review 📚 The dark side of green technology: what do electric vehicles really cost?
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Researchers need new bot-detection strategies that exploit the limits of human reasoning rather than AI weaknesses
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How to stop the survey-taking AI chatbots that threaten to upend social science
Researchers need new bot-detection strategies that exploit the limits of human reasoning rather than AI weaknesses.
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February 9, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Researchers need new bot-detection strategies that exploit the limits of human reasoning rather than AI weaknesses
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Latest from the Nature Careers Podcast 🔊 The academic workplace is getting better at supporting colleagues with anxiety and depression. Why does alcohol remain a taboo topic?
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‘We need to dismantle the stigma of alcohol dependence in academia’
The academic workplace is getting better at supporting colleagues with anxiety and depression. Why does alcohol remain a taboo topic?
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February 9, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Latest from the Nature Careers Podcast 🔊 The academic workplace is getting better at supporting colleagues with anxiety and depression. Why does alcohol remain a taboo topic?
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Airborne sensor shows that methane emissions from oil- and gas-producing areas can be five times higher than reported
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Super-sniffer aeroplane finds oil fields’ hidden emissions
Airborne sensor shows that methane emissions from oil- and gas-producing areas can be five times higher than reported.
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February 9, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Airborne sensor shows that methane emissions from oil- and gas-producing areas can be five times higher than reported
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Newly released files from the investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein reveal that his ties to the scientific community were deeper than previously known
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Epstein files reveal deeper ties to scientists than previously known
Latest batch of documents show researchers consulting the financier and sex offender on publications, visas and more.
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February 9, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Newly released files from the investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein reveal that his ties to the scientific community were deeper than previously known
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Measles has been so rare in many countries that some physicians have never seen a case — but that is changing
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Measles is raging worldwide: are you at risk?
Cases in fully vaccinated people are rare and usually mild, but are likely to become more common as exposure to the virus rises.
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February 9, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Measles has been so rare in many countries that some physicians have never seen a case — but that is changing
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Nature research paper: Chemical capture of diazo metabolites reveals biosynthetic hydrazone oxidation
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Chemical capture of diazo metabolites reveals biosynthetic hydrazone oxidation - Nature
An approach to discover reactive diazo-based metabolites by capture based on their reactivity coupled to mass spectrometry revealed two previously unknown diazo-containing compounds produced by the human lung pathogen Nocardia ninae using novel biosynthetic chemistry.
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February 9, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Nature research paper: Chemical capture of diazo metabolites reveals biosynthetic hydrazone oxidation
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