PhD programmes in an industrial setting were on the rise in the 1970s, and a reflection on Darwin’s rich accomplishments, in the weekly dip into Nature’s archive go.nature.com/3Vse0FI

An AI model developed by Microsoft can accurately forecast weather and air pollution for the whole world — and it does it in less than a minute.

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Jaw-dropping views of the Milky Way and more — May’s best science images go.nature.com/3X3OWpO

“Science is the highest priority for the government,” says Ajay Sood, principal scientific adviser to the Indian government go.nature.com/3KtNhm0

Governments must act now on vaccine and pathogen-sample sharing, or any agreement will be a promise only on paper, says Tae Jung Park go.nature.com/4aNMpDr

An artificial-intelligence model developed by Microsoft can accurately forecast weather and air pollution for the whole world — and it does it in less than a minute go.nature.com/4aI6N8Y

Scientists are now hoping Chang'e-6 will successfully dock with its orbiter and make a safe trip home go.nature.com/4bMOQY8

Latest from the Nature Careers Podcast 🔊 Using live transport data to deliver sustainable cities go.nature.com/3VbuG32

While hopes and concerns swirl around the impact of AI, the market for AI chips continues to grow go.nature.com/4e8MlAX

This year sees an exceptionally rare joint emergence of two cicada broods: one that surfaces every 13 years and another with a 17-year cycle

They last emerged together in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson was US president go.nature.com/4bHzT9S

Countries have failed to hammer out a global pandemic treaty by their original deadline go.nature.com/3VbMgDM

Anthony Fauci's long-awaited testimony ends in fireworks as US lawmakers spar over the former infectious-disease official’s pandemic actions go.nature.com/3RbRBtG

Nature research paper: Observation of Bose–Einstein condensation of dipolar molecules go.nature.com/4e6JTuG

Isabelle Côté and three other female marine scientists competed in a row across the Atlantic ocean, making the trip in 38 days to raise money for ocean education, conservation and research go.nature.com/45bpVuS

Countries missed the deadline to finalize a global treaty to improve future pandemic responses. But there's renewed hope as they agreed to extend negotiations for another year. I spoke with public health experts about the latest developments for nature: nature.com/articles/d4158…

Physicists have succeeded in cooling down molecules so much that hundreds of them lock in step, making a single gigantic quantum state. go.nature.com/4bFCqBe

Over the past 25 years, Kristine Ulvund has helped to increase the Arctic fox population size from 50 or so individuals to more than 500 go.nature.com/3V8Mz2l

Environmental engineer Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo has made history by being elected Mexico’s first female president.

Will she stand up for science? go.nature.com/3R78jKT

Fluorescent labels that have greater resistance to bleaching could help researchers to get more from biological imaging go.nature.com/3KyeyDz

A small, unassuming fern-like plant has something massive lurking within: the largest genome ever discovered, outstripping the human genome by more than 50 times.

The plant contains a whopping 160 billion base pairs 🤯

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