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It started with an innocent mistake. Texas entrepreneur Chris Bentley had founded a company to buy drilling rights for oil and gas. He realized that a…

Julie Gould 00:10Hello and welcome to Working Scientist, a Nature Careers podcast. I’m Julie Gould.This is the sixth and final episode of the career planning series,…

The shutdown of the US government, about to enter its third week, is starting to take a toll on US science. Since the shutdown began, the…

October 14, 20253 min readNovember 2025: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years AgoCurveballs; poison wallpaperBy Mark Fischetti 1975, Pupil Perception: “Photographs of two women…

October 14, 20254 min readEconomics Nobel Honors Work Linking Scientific Research to ProsperityJoel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt share the Nobel economics prize for work…

October 14, 20255 min readImmigration Has Shaped the Lives and Careers of 30 Percent of Recent Nobel Prize ScientistsOf the 202 Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry…

The 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize for Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to three researchers who have shown how technological and scientific…

October 10, 20254 min readWhen Will the Leaves Turn? This Is How Scientists Find Peak Fall ColorsIf you want to know where the best leaf peeping…

Omar Yaghi, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday, emigrated from Jordan to the United States as a teenager.Credit: Brittany Hosea-Small/UC BerkeleyOf the…

Julie Gould 00:01 Hello and welcome to Working Scientist, a Nature Careers podcast. I’m Julie Gould. This is the fifth episode of our career planning series.…