July 2023 – Page 8 – School of Physics

A call to reduce the carbon costs of forest harvest

July 31, 2023 William R. Moomaw

Nature, Published online: 31 July 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02238-9Economic modelling of the global carbon cost of harvesting wood from forests shows a much higher annual cost than that estimated by other models, highlighting a majo…

Plastic rocks are threatening wildlife on Brazil’s easternmost island — I’m studying how

July 31, 2023 Virginia Gewin

Nature, Published online: 31 July 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02448-1Geologist Fernanda Avelar Santos finds that fishing gear and packaging are creating a new type of pollution.

Audio long read: Lab mice go wild — making experiments more natural in order to decode the brain

July 31, 2023 Kerri Smith

Nature, Published online: 31 July 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02303-3Neuroscientists are developing new set-ups to study how the brain might work in the messy, unpredictable real world.

UK research assessment is being reformed — but the changes miss the mark

July 31, 2023 Richard Watermeyer

Nature, Published online: 31 July 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02469-wA shift from individual to institutional performance in the next Research Excellence Framework exercise is welcome, but ignores the realities of academia.

Conserved class B GPCR activation by a biased intracellular agonist

July 31, 2023 Li-Hua Zhao

Nature, Published online: 31 July 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06467-wConserved class B GPCR activation by a biased intracellular agonist

Threatened Mexican oasis loses its main researcher and protector — will it survive?

July 31, 2023 Myriam Vidal Valero

Nature, Published online: 31 July 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02413-yValeria Souza has long fought the drainage of the Cuatro Ciénegas basin, where ancient microbes offer clues to the origins of life.