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Saturday, September 13, 2025
TopicNature journal

Topic: Nature journal

007 would drool. Chinese researchers invent contact lenses that let you see even with your eyes closed

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Ancient faeces & vomit uncover how dinosaurs rose to power in early Jurassic ecosystem—Nature study

Fossilised droppings & undigested food helped scientists recreate eating habits of dinosaur species to trace their evolution over 30 million years.

Use of horses became widespread only around 2200 BCE, finds Nature study challenging timeline

For the study, researchers from France analysed genomes of 475 ancient horses to conclude that widespread horse domestication likely didn't occur before 2,700 BCE.

How does our brain form long-term memories? By breaking & repairing DNA, US study finds

The study published in Nature & conducted by scientists from Albert Einstein College of Medicine shows bad experiences cause DNA to break and repair, helping form long-term memory.

How do jellyfish regrow their limbs in 3 days? Tokyo scientists have an answer

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Single dose of gene therapy could stop cats getting pregnant for 2 yrs, finds Nature study

Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, CREW & Horae Gene Therapy Center found hormone released after gene therapy blocked development of egg follicles in ovaries for 2 years.

Scientists may have found antidote for world’s deadliest ‘death cap’ mushrooms — a medical dye

Chinese & Australian researchers' findings published in Nature. Death caps cause 90 per cent of mushroom poisoning fatalities across the world every year.

Arctic sea ice has become thinner, reduced by 52% between 2005-07, finds Nature journal report

A new report by British journal Nature has found that Arctic sea ice underwent an abrupt shift from 'thick deformed ice' to 'thin uniform ice cover'.

Why did methane levels shoot up in Covid yr? Warm weather, and less pollution

In a study published in the Nature journal Wednesday, scientists attributed the methane growth in 2020 to wetland emission and changes in ‘atmospheric sink’.

Diversity among reptiles a result of global warming 250 years ago, finds study

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

On Camera

Russian-style socialism dominated Nehru’s imagination. It was disastrous

It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.

Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India

To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.