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What matters in science |  View this email in your browser Thursday 28 March 2024 Hello Nature readers, Today we learn how climate change could affect how we keep time, explore why journal editors are resigning en masse and discover how experiments in mice are rejuvenating the immune system. Global warming could push back the need for another leap second, which this time will be a skipped second, from 2026 to 2029. (Alessandro Dahan/Getty) Climate change is slowing Eart...

What matters in science |  View this email in your browser Wednesday 27 March 2024 Hello Nature readers, Today we learn that tweeting about your paper doesn't boost citations, discover where humans might have settled during a long pause in our migration out of Africa and hear what engineers think about the Baltimore bridge collapse. New findings echo those of a 2013 study that found a low correlation between posting a paper on social media and an increase in its citation rate. (Matt Cardy/Getty) ...

What matters in science |  View this email in your browser Tuesday 26 March 2024 Hello Nature readers, Today, we discover that electrons can behave as if they had fractional charges, find out how birds gesture 'after you' to their mates and learn how the Big Bang got its name. The fact that electrons in stacked sheets of staggered graphene collectively act as though they have fractional charges came as a surprise. "There's no universal consensus on what the correct theory is," says theoretical...

What matters in science |  View this email in your browser Monday 25 March 2024 Hello Nature readers, Today we look forward to our best view ever of the cosmic microwave background, grapple with the carbon footprint of urban agriculture and learn that pregnancy advances your 'biological' age — but giving birth turns it back. The front of the Simons Observatory's Large Aperture Telescope Receiver, the largest receiver for observing the cosmic microwave background built so far. (Mark Devlin/Universit...