NEWS AND VIEWS01 July 2025Lukewarm efforts to get Britain to save on the energy bill, and a mysterious string of house-fly deaths, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archive.50 years agoAccess optionsAccess Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journalsGet Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription27,99 € / 30 dayscancel any timeLearn moreSubscribe to this journalReceive 51 print issues and online access199,00 € per yearonly 3,90 € per issueLearn moreRent or buy this articlePrices vary by article typefrom$1.95to$39.95Learn morePrices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkoutdoi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-01895-2This article features text from Nature’s archive. By its historical nature, the archive includes some images, articles and language that by twenty-first-century standards are offensive and harmful. Find out more.SubjectsHistoryEnergyScientific communityLatest on:Jobs W3-Professur für Zahnärztliche Prothetik und WerkstoffkundeThe Jena University Hospital (JUH) invites applications for a Professorship for Dental Prosthetics and Materials Science (W3) to be filled at the e...07743, Zentrum (DE)Friedrich-Schiller-Universität JenaRecruitment of scientific research personnel at National Institute of Pathogen Biology, CAMS&PUMC.Tenure-track / Tenured Faculty and Young Outstanding Scholar Program Postdoctoral Research Fellows.No.16, TianRong Street, Daxing District, BeijingNational Institute of Pathogen Biology, CAMS&PUMCThe University of Osaka Immunology Frontier Research Center Postdoctoral ResearcherIFReC, The University of Osaka in Japan offers Advanced Postdoc Positions for Immunology, Cell Biology, Bioinformatics and Bioimaging.Suita Campus, The University of Osaka in Osaka, JapanImmunology Frontier Research Center, The University of OsakaAssistant, Associate, or Full Professor in BioChemistryUniversity of California, Merced invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured faculty position in BiochemistryMerced, CaliforniaUniversity of California MercedFaculty Positions in Westlake UniversityFounded in 2018, Westlake University is a new type of non-profit research-oriented university in Hangzhou, China, supported by public a...Hangzhou, Zhejiang, ChinaWestlake University