Nature | 11 min read Earliest bird signs in southern hemisphereįootprints preserved in the rocks of Australia’s south coast might have been left by ancient birds 128 million years ago - the earliest evidence for birds in the southern hemisphere. “Once it’s at the level of people speaking to people, it’s a very strong relationship and it takes a lot to break it.” “Those projects are typically at the level of person-to-person,” says Arie Zaban, president of Bar-Ilan University in Israel. But some academics cling to hope that their work will offer a bridge to peace. As of yesterday, three Israelis and 183 Palestinians had been killed in the West Bank since 7 October, according to United Nations sources.For now, many international collaborations are on ice. “There is no electricity, no Internet, no drinking water, no fuel” and the families are drinking salty water from the sea, he says.In the West Bank, in-person teaching and research has stopped because of the risk of being shot on the way to campus.

Electrical engineer Hatem Ali Elaydi says that 74 people from seven families are sheltering in his home. Five out of the six main universities in Gaza have been bombed or damaged in Israel’s bombardment and ground operation against Hamas. “Apart from being a great physicist, Sergey was also a musician, a storyteller and a historian of the famed Kharkiv school of physics,” says BGU’s head of physics, Oleg Krichevsky. One of them was theoretical physicist Sergey Gredeskul. Nature | 6 min read Scientists and the Israel–Hamas conflictĪmong the terrible losses suffered in Israel in the 7 October Hamas attacks, Ben-Gurion University (BGU) lost 84 people, including students and faculty members. “We know doing experiments that healthy, happy animals result in the most consistent data,” says microbiologist Ricardo Carrion. Monkey laundering could invalidate study results because wild monkeys have been exposed to a cocktail of diseases, and forcing them into captivity is stressful for them. Smugglers are being drawn by skyrocketing prices after the biggest supplier, China, halted exports to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Laboratory monkeys are being illegally poached from the wild, falsely labelled as captive-bred and sold as research animals - a practice known as monkey laundering. Credit: Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty ‘Monkey laundering’ undermines research Since the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the supply of research monkeys has been low. Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here.

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