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| The new Moon atlas took more than 100 researchers over a decade to compile. (Chinese Academy of Sciences via Xinhua/Alamy) | |||||
Most detailed Moon maps ever madeThe Chinese Academy of Sciences has released the highest-resolution geological atlas of the Moon yet. The Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe reveals a total of 12,341 craters, 81 basins and 17 rock types, along with other basic geological information about the lunar surface. The maps were made at the unprecedented scale of 1:2,500,000. China will use the maps to support its lunar ambitions and researchers say that the maps will be beneficial to other countries as they undertake their own Moon missions. Nature | 5 min read | |||||
Rat neurons repair mouse brainsRat cells can fill in gaps in the brains of developing mice, such as missing olfactory neurons and even an entire brain region. While researchers have created other hybrid animals, such as mice with rat organs, this is the first demonstration of rat neurons becoming an essential part of controlling the mice's behaviour. Nature | 6 min readReference: Cell paper 1 & paper 2 | |||||
Ranga Dias's lawsuit dismissedSuperconductivity physicist Ranga Dias sued his university for allegedly violating his academic freedom and conducting a biased investigation, which found he had committed extensive scientific misconduct. A judge dismissed the lawsuit as "not ripe for judicial review" because the university, which recommended that Dias be fired, has not yet finished taking administrative action. Nature | 6 min read | |||||
NIH raises pay for postdocs and PhDThe US National Institutes of Health (NIH) said it will raise the salaries of thousands of postdoctoral researchers and graduate students who receive a prestigious NIH research fellowship. The move could boost pay for other scientists as well, because academic institutions often follow guidelines set by the NIH. "This is a major step in the right direction and something that the majority will agree is widely needed to retain talent in the biomedical and academic research sectors," says biomedical engineer Francisca Maria Acosta. Nature | 4 min read | |||||
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Bird flu in US cows: is the milk supply safe?Three weeks after the announcement of the first ever outbreak of an avian influenza virus in dairy cattle, the H5N1 strain of bird flu has been detected in eight US states. On Wednesday, officials confirmed that genomic material from the virus has been detected in milk sold in shops. "The detection of viral RNA does not itself pose a health risk to consumers," says dairy scientist Nicole Martin. "We expect to find this residual genetic material if the virus was there in the raw milk and was inactivated by pasteurization." More evidence is needed to confirm that pasteurization kills H5N1. There are rules that milk from infected cows must be discarded, so the presence of viral material in commercially available milk might indicate that not every infected cow is being spotted and tested. Nature | 6 min readFor more coverage of the spread of H5N1, update your preferences to sign up to our free weekly Nature Briefing: Microbiology. | |||||
Futures: Cosmic rentalsImmortals browse the shelves of a Universe-rental shop for comedies, tragedies and other genres in the latest short story for Nature's Futures series. Nature | 6 min read | |||||
The unlikely friendship of Pauli and Jung"It was as if the wind had blown in from the lunatic asylum," wrote psychoanalyst Carl Jung, of physicist Wolfgang Pauli's first visit. Scientist and writer Arthur I. Miller tells the tale of how the patient-analyst relationship between Jung and Pauli evolved into a friendship that deeply influenced Pauli's work. "Pauli had always been fascinated by alchemy, magic and myth, all of which were central to Jung's psychology," writes Miller. "Privately, he attributed his work towards CPT [charge, parity, and time] symmetry to discussions and creativity sparked through his conversations with Jung." Nature Reviews Physics | 5 min readYou might have spotted this in yesterday's Briefing, but with the wrong link — sorry about that! I'm repeating it today so that no one misses out. | |||||
Podcast: How marsupials got their 'wings'Researchers have discovered the genetic region that gives sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps) and others 'flying' marsupials their gliding membrane. Comparing the DNA of 14 marsupial species showed that "all glider species seem to be evolving at a very high rate in a particular region, nearby a gene called Emx2", explains molecular biologist and study co-author Ricardo Mallarino. Sugar glider embryos developed shorter gliding membranes when the activity of that gene was decreased. Nature Podcast | 29 min listenSubscribe to the Nature Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube Music, or use the RSS feed. | |||||
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Quote of the day"One of the attractions of the field is that my non-human kin don't question my purpose there."Amid the data deluge provided by lab-based techniques, ecologist Chris Mantegna reminds her colleagues not to lose touch with the joy of the field — especially those ecologists from historically under-represented backgrounds, who have long been subject to fieldwork exclusion or harassment. (Nature | 5 min read) | |||||
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What matters in science | View this email in your browser Monday 11 December 2023 Hello Nature readers, Today, we gaze at what might be the largest known protein, learn about the first global deal on limiting emissions from food production and discover how publishing pressures create unusually prolific authors. A structure prediction for a massive protein discovered by computational biologist Jacob West-Roberts and his colleagues. (West-Roberts, J. et al./bioRxiv ) Not...
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