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Many consider Hermann von Helmholtz to be one of the last — if not the last — polymaths in the history of science.https://go.nature.com/2CTWx2J 

Catch up on the week in science...https://go.nature.com/2x8Xcbn 

The US National Science Foundation has expanded a funding initiative to support master’s and PhD students for six-month internships.https://go.nature.com/2Mp36da 

If a picture tells a thousand words, a cross-hatched design drawn on a fragment of rock some 73,000 years ago could speak volumes.https://go.nature.com/2NFzxsx 

President Macron’s acknowledgement that the French army tortured and killed mathematician Maurice Audin during the Algerian war prompts first admission that torture was systematically used during the conflict.https://go.nature.com/2N8KwLw 

Our columnists searched Scopus for authors who had published more than 72 papers (the equivalent of one paper every 5 days) in any one calendar year between 2000 and 2016. Here are the results https://go.nature.com/2p7HpF3 

There has been a steady growth overall in R&D since the the initial aftermath of the crash.https://go.nature.com/2Nb6v4F 

The world’s oldest drawing, screening every possible single-letter variation in the breast cancer gene, and the thousands of scientists who publish the equivalent of 1 paper every 5 days — all in today's Nature Briefing.https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06699-1?utm_source=twt_nnc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=naturenews&utm_content=briefing …

.@neiltyson and co-author Avis Lang reveal how looking at the stars has always been both ‘pure’ science and an adjunct of war-making.https://go.nature.com/2CTaJcb 

Report by the @WHO found that researchers make too little effort to seek out data from people living in poverty.https://go.nature.com/2OhEK6S 

A study of nearly 4,000 variants in a gene associated with cancer could help to pinpoint people at risk for breast or ovarian tumours.https://go.nature.com/2Oj75tk 

A new book about the Myers-Briggs imparts fascinating details of two willful women making their way in a sexist — and racist — corporate landscape.https://go.nature.com/2N6rEgd 

Catch up on the week in science...https://go.nature.com/2xjVseL 

The cross-hatched design seems to be the earliest evidence for a drawing in the archaeological record, by some margin.https://go.nature.com/2p5AmNk 

Authorship is the coin of scholarship — and some researchers are minting a lot, say our columnists this week.https://go.nature.com/2ObRKuG