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  • Focal Point |

    The first country to take material from an asteroid and bring it back to Earth, Japan has more ambitious projects in its sights, including aspirations for establishing permanent bases on the Moon.

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  • Spotlight |

    Advances in paediatric care are leading to marked declines in child mortality worldwide, with clinician-led research revealing not only the mechanisms that drive disease but also the barriers that prevent children from reaching optimum health.

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  • Nature Index |

    Climate and conservation scientists are bringing real progress to the fight against global warming, despite political and funding obstacles.

  • Career Guide |

    This isn’t your parents’ bench science.

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  • Collection |

    The 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.

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  • Collection |

    The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter“.

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  • Collection |

    The 2023 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their “discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19”.

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  • Series |

    Science is a team effort but the contributions of research managers, administrators, citizen scientists, librarians and technicians are sometimes overlooked.

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  • Career Guide |

    When most researchers leave academia, they don’t plan to return.

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  • Nature Outlook |

    Every parent fears the onset of the cold-like symptoms caused by the common respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).

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