Chronicle: Last June researchers and librarians at the University of California threatened to boycottNature and the other journals published by Nature Publishing Group in response to a 400% jump in subscription fees. NPG countered with a press release that argued that the subscription increase was high only because the University of California had been benefiting from a previous, unusually generous deal. Now, reports the Chronicle‘s Jennifer Howard, the two sides are working together to strike a new, mutually agreeable deal.
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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