Tiny robots made from human cells heal damaged tissue (www.nature.com)
The most powerful cosmic ray since the Oh-My-God particle puzzles scientists (www.nature.com)
Scientists have detected the most powerful cosmic ray seen in more than three decades. But the exact origin of this turbocharged particle from outer space remains a mystery, with some suggesting that it could have been generated by unknown physics....
‘Politicians don’t understand science’: advisers give evidence at UK COVID inquiry (www.nature.com)
ChatGPT generates fake data set to support scientific hypothesis (www.nature.com)
Researchers say that the model behind the chatbot fabricated a convincing bogus database, but a forensic examination shows it doesn’t pass for authentic.
Is it too late to keep global warmingbelow 1.5 °C? The challenge in 7 charts (www.nature.com)
Giant UK programme to lower people’s blood-sugar levels really works (www.nature.com)
Controversies of carbon dioxide removal - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment (www.nature.com)
Various methods of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) are being pursued in response to the climate crisis, but they are mostly not proven at scale. Climate experts are divided over whether CDR is a necessary requirement or a dangerous distraction from limiting emissions. In this Viewpoint, six experts offer their views on the CDR...
Nature retracts controversial superconductivity paper by embattled physicist (www.nature.com)
Earth just had its hottest year on record — climate change is to blame (www.nature.com)
Engineered yeast breaks new record: a genome with over 50% synthetic DNA (www.nature.com)
Engineered yeast breaks new record: a genome with over 50% synthetic DNA (www.nature.com)
Dengue is spreading. Can new vaccines and antivirals halt its rise? (www.nature.com)
‘ChatGPT detector’ catches AI-generated papers with unprecedented accuracy (www.nature.com)
TIL ants that farm aphids influence the aphids’ genes in a similar way that we do with cows. Aphid-farming ants prefer and select for red/green polymorphism. (www.nature.com)
From the article:...
Toxic workplaces are the main reason women leave academic jobs (www.nature.com)
Psychedelic treatments are speeding towards approval — but no one knows how they work (www.nature.com)
Unavoidable future increase in West Antarctic ice-shelf melting over the twenty-first century (www.nature.com)
Scientists deliberately gave women Zika — here’s why (www.nature.com)
‘Human challenge’ results suggest that such trials could be used to test vaccines when Zika incidence is low....
Grand plan to drought-proof India could reduce rainfall (www.nature.com)
The major engineering scheme aims to interlink several Indian rivers to support irrigation....
AI tidies up Wikipedia’s references — and boosts reliability (www.nature.com)
Should I believe this headline?
Argentina election: front runner vows to slash science funding (www.nature.com)
New antiviral pill helps COVID smell and taste loss fade quickly (www.nature.com)
The antiviral drug ensitrelvir, which shortens sensory problems, is one of the few COVID-19 drugs available to people not at high risk of grave illness.
New pill helps COVID smell and taste loss fade quickly (www.nature.com)
New clinical-trial data suggest that an antiviral pill called ensitrelvir shortens the duration of two unpleasant symptoms of COVID-19: loss of smell and taste. The medication is among the first to alleviate these effects and, unlike other COVID-19 treatments, is not reserved only for people at high risk of severe illness.
Milkshake neuroscience: how the brain nudges us toward fatty foods (www.nature.com)
Rich, high-fat foods such as ice cream are loved not only for their taste, but also for the physical sensations they produce in the mouth — their ‘mouthfeel’. Now scientists have identified a brain area that both responds to the smooth texture of fatty foods and uses that information to rate the morsel’s allure, guiding...
Antibiotic identified by AI (www.nature.com)
Sadly, I can’t seem to find the non paywalled version of the article ._.
