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Headlines From Nature News

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) near Tucson, Arizona.
Courtesy DESI
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) near Tucson, Arizona.

It’s time for our monthly tour of science headlines from our friends at the Journal Nature and the Nature podcast. 

This month, we hear from European bureau chief Nisha Gaind on these stories:

Japan approves first human-animal embryo experiments

Alarming surge in drug-resistant HIV uncovered

Scientists glimpse oddball microbe that could help explain rise of complex life

Dark-energy mapper will reconstruct 11 billion years of cosmic history

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Elsa Partan is a producer and newscaster with CAI. She first came to the station in 2002 as an intern and fell in love with radio. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. From 2006 to 2009, she covered the state of Wyoming for the NPR member station Wyoming Public Media in Laramie. She was a newspaper reporter at The Mashpee Enterprise from 2010 to 2013. She lives in Falmouth with her husband and two daughters.