Scientists among thousands marching to demand say on Brexit

Scientists among thousands marching to demand say on Brexit, Published online: 23 March 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-00968-3

Hundreds of thousands of people protested in London to push for a say on the terms of the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union.

Supercharged thunderstorm reaches a record 1.3 billion volts

Supercharged thunderstorm reaches a record 1.3 billion volts, Published online: 22 March 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-00934-z

Measurements also help to explain mysterious flashes of radiation inside thunderclouds.

Fossil bed reveals a wealth of primeval species in exquisite detail

Fossil bed reveals a wealth of primeval species in exquisite detail, Published online: 22 March 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-00951-y

Deposit in China rivals Canada’s renowned Burgess Shale in its preservation of animals’ soft tissue.

Daily briefing: Six easy time-management tips for scientists

Daily briefing: Six easy time-management tips for scientists, Published online: 22 March 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-00977-2

Make a plan and don’t panic. Plus: first primate born from transplanted testicular tissue and six time-management tips for scientists.

Retire significance, but still test hypotheses

Retire significance, but still test hypotheses, Published online: 22 March 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-00972-7

Retire significance, but still test hypotheses

Raise the bar rather than retire significance

Raise the bar rather than retire significance, Published online: 22 March 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-00970-9

Raise the bar rather than retire significance

Retiring statistical significance would give bias a free pass

Retiring statistical significance would give bias a free pass, Published online: 22 March 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-00969-2

Retiring statistical significance would give bias a free pass

Building trust is essential to combat the Ebola outbreak

Building trust is essential to combat the Ebola outbreak, Published online: 22 March 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-00892-6

Researchers can do more to contain the escalating public-health crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Six easy ways to manage your time better

Six easy ways to manage your time better, Published online: 22 March 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-00973-6

The amount and quality of what you achieve are crucially dependent on how effectively you manage your time. Andrew C. Johnson and John Sumpter propose some simple steps that scientists can take to improve their time management.

South Korea accepts geothermal plant probably caused destructive quake

South Korea accepts geothermal plant probably caused destructive quake, Published online: 22 March 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-00959-4

The nation’s energy ministry expressed ‘deep regret’, and said it would dismantle the experimental plant.

Understanding the behavior of Earth through the diverse fields of the solid Earth geosciences is an increasingly important task. It is made challenging by the complex, interacting, and multiscale processes needed to understand Earth’s behavior and by the inaccessibility of nearly all of Earth’s subsurface to direct observation. Substantial increases in data availability and in the increasingly realistic character of computer simulations hold promise for accelerating progress, but developing a deeper understanding based on these capabilities is itself challenging. Machine learning will play a key role in this effort. We review the state of the field and make recommendations for how progress might be broadened and accelerated.

Celliers et al. (Reports, 17 August 2018, p. 677), in an attempt to reconcile differences in inferred metallization pressures, provide an alternative temperature analysis of the Knudson et al. experiments (Reports, 26 June 2015, p. 1455). We show that this reanalysis implies an anomalously low specific heat for the metallic fluid that is clearly inconsistent with first-principles calculations.