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Virtual reality comes of age

Ramin Skibba weighs up a hymn to applications from school to sports.

Ramin Skibba
Books & Arts23 Jan 2018
Nature

Volume: 553, P: 402-403
Einstein, Bohr and the war over quantum theory

Ramin Skibba explores a history of unresolved questions beyond the Copenhagen interpretation.

Ramin Skibba
Books & Arts27 Mar 2018
Nature

Volume: 555, P: 582-584
Astrobiology: Hunting aliens

Ramin Skibba enjoys a profile of the woman heading the search for life off Earth.

Ramin Skibba
Books & Arts29 Jun 2017
Nature

Volume: 546, P: 596-597
Audio long read: Which is the fairest electoral system? Mega-election year sparks debate

Political scientists have been exploring the merits of contrasting voting methods to see which is most representative or democratic.

Ramin Skibba
Benjamin Thompson
News25 Oct 2024
Nature
Publisher Correction: Women in physics

Ramin Skibba
Amendments and Corrections28 May 2019
Nature Reviews Physics

Volume: 1, P: 416
Which is the fairest electoral system? Mega-election year sparks debate

Proportional representation or winner takes all? Here’s how researchers compare the merits of contrasting voting methods.

Ramin Skibba
News08 Oct 2024
Nature

Volume: 634, P: 280-283
Record-breaking common swifts fly for 10 months without landing

The small birds spend most of their lives on the wing.

Ramin Skibba
News27 Oct 2016
Nature
Giant ice volcano spotted on dwarf planet Ceres

Images from Dawn spacecraft reveal signs of complex geology that created the dome-shaped Ahuna Mons.

Ramin Skibba
News01 Sept 2016
Nature
Kepler finds scores of planets around cool dwarf stars

NASA’s rebooted mission, K2, seeks out new worlds closely orbiting stars smaller than the Sun.

Ramin Skibba
News21 Oct 2016
Nature
Crunch, rip, freeze or decay — how will the Universe end?

Astrophysicist Katie Mack’s book explores all the ways the cosmos could destroy itself.

Ramin Skibba
Books & Arts10 Aug 2020
Nature

Volume: 584, P: 187
The demons and devils that haunt scientists’ imaginations

Strange beasts stalk a history of thought experiments.

Ramin Skibba
Books & Arts30 Nov 2020
Nature

Volume: 588, P: 27-28
The polling crisis: How to tell what people really think

This year’s US presidential election is the toughest test yet for political polls as experts struggle to keep up with changing demographics and technology.

Ramin Skibba
News19 Oct 2016
Nature

Volume: 538, P: 304-306
Immigrant and minority scientists shaken by Trump win

Worries include job prospects, discrimination — and safety.

Heidi Ledford
Sara Reardon
Ramin Skibba
News22 Nov 2016
Nature

Volume: 539, P: 476-477
Scholarly Olympics: How the games have shaped research

A graphical guide to the impact of the Olympics on science.

Daniel Cressey
Ramin Skibba
Richard Van Noorden
News04 Aug 2016
Nature

Volume: 536, P: 18-19
Women postdocs less likely than men to get a glowing reference

Women and men applying for geoscience postdocs receive very different letters of support from their mentors.

Ramin Skibba
News03 Oct 2016
Nature
Finding my way from astronomy to science writing

An astrophysicist describes how he charted his course into writing and journalism — and how others could do the same.

Ramin Skibba
Comments & Opinion02 Jan 2018
Nature Astronomy

Volume: 2, P: 2-3
Poor musical taste? Blame your upbringing

The world that we hear shapes the music that we like.

Ramin Skibba
News13 Jul 2016
Nature
Why the US decision to expand marijuana supply for research matters

Policy change could accelerate development of treatments derived from the drug.

Ramin Skibba
News12 Aug 2016
Nature
Me and my drone: how automatons are changing research

From birds to coastlines, drones take data collection to a whole new level.

Ramin Skibba
News29 Aug 2016
Nature
Geneticists seek keys to bat vocalizations

Project to sequence the DNA of more than 1,000 species seeks to reveal how bats learn to communicate.

Ramin Skibba
News18 Nov 2016
Nature

Volume: 539, P: 481
Pollsters struggle to explain failures of US presidential forecasts

Most surveys did not predict Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton.

Ramin Skibba
News09 Nov 2016
Nature

Volume: 539, P: 339
Atom wranglers create rewritable memory

Chlorine atoms arranged into grids bring researchers closer to data-storage devices that could hold the US Library of Congress.

Ramin Skibba
News18 Jul 2016
Nature
Women in physics

The percentage of women in post-graduate physics positions has stalled just below 20%. The most precipitous drop in women’s representation occurs between high school and university; however, women at all career stages struggle with ongoing cultural burdens and obstacles.

Ramin Skibba
Special Features07 May 2019
Nature Reviews Physics

Volume: 1, P: 298-300
Climate-change study raises spectre of advancing Mediterranean desert

If the 2-degree warming threshold of the Paris agreement is exceeded, Mediterranean ecosystems will change beyond anything seen over the past 10,000 years.

Ramin Skibba
News01 Jan 2016
Nature
Psychologists fail to replicate well-known behaviour linked to learning

Numerous failed attempts to replicate the 'blocking effect' cast doubt on its scope.

Ramin Skibba
News26 Sept 2016
Nature
Bat banter is surprisingly nuanced

The racket that Egyptian fruit bats make when jammed next to each other contains information about food, sleeping arrangements and mating attempts.

Ramin Skibba
News22 Dec 2016
Nature
OSIRIS-REx spacecraft blazes trail for asteroid miners

Retrieval of a space-rock sample would be proof of concept for mining metals and water.

Ramin Skibba
News02 Sept 2016
Nature
The hunt for rogue planets just got tougher

New analyses cut down the estimated number of planets unattached to a star by half.

Ramin Skibba
News08 Feb 2017
Nature
Women in physics face big hurdles — still

Persistent biases continue to affect the numbers of female physicists.

Ramin Skibba
News01 Aug 2016
Nature
Swiss survey highlights potential flaws in animal studies

Poor experimental design and statistical analysis could contribute to widespread problems in reproducing preclinical animal experiments.

Ramin Skibba
News20 Dec 2016
Nature
Psychologists argue about whether smiling makes cartoons funnier

Multi-lab experiment fails to validate decades-old report that facial expressions can affect emotional state.

Ramin Skibba
News03 Nov 2016
Nature
Tiny pterosaur claims new perch on reptile family tree

Fossils find suggests that cat-sized reptile lived alongside birds and larger pterosaurs.

Ramin Skibba
News31 Aug 2016
Nature
Deep-sea microbes, simple medical diagnostic tools and complex computing win 2016 MacArthur ‘genius grants’

Eight scientists are among the 23 winners.

Ramin Skibba
News22 Sept 2016
Nature
Stopgap spending bill leaves US scientists in limbo

Proposal would keep funding flat for most research agencies, but cuts could come early next year.

Ramin Skibba
News07 Dec 2016
Nature
Fleeting phase of planet formation discovered

These celestial bodies coalesce into objects shaped like giant red blood cells.

Ramin Skibba
News24 May 2017
Nature