NASA’s Earth-observing satellites are crucial — commercial missions cannot replace them Summary This World View piece by Danielle Wood (MIT) argues that while commercial satellite firms have made impressive advances…
Deep brain stimulation data need public oversight Summary Alberto Priori and Sara Marceglia argue that the growing volume of data generated by smart deep brain stimulation (DBS) implants should not…
Five reasons why Nepal struggles to attract women into science Summary This Nature Careers podcast episode profiles Babita Paudel, a biochemist and head research director at the Centre for Natural…
Scientific meetings debate the effect of climate change on future food production Summary Scientists at recent meetings emphasised growing consensus that climate change poses a serious threat to global agriculture,…
Solid-gold nav bars? Trump plans redesign of government websites Content summary The White House has issued an executive order launching a National Design Studio (NDS) and an “America by Design”…
VMware before Broadcom was ‘A unicorn in fluffy cloudland’ Summary Yves Sandfort, CEO of long-time VMware partner Comdivision, gives a blunt appraisal of VMware before and after Broadcom’s acquisition. He…
Linux Foundation says yes to NoSQL via DocumentDB Summary The Linux Foundation has adopted Microsoft’s DocumentDB project, a PostgreSQL extensions-based document database, under a permissive MIT licence. DocumentDB implements BSON…
Trump made Intel an offer it couldn’t refuse Summary The US government has acquired roughly 10% of Intel — about 433 million shares — in a deal tied to $8.9bn…
Two wrongs don’t make a copyright Content summary Rupert Goodwins argues that Axel Springer’s long-running legal battle in Germany — an 11-year fight claiming that ad-blocking software unlawfully modifies its…
Trump threatens extra tariffs, tech export bans, for any nation that dares to regulate Big Tech Summary US President Donald Trump used Truth Social to threaten “substantial additional tariffs” and…
