All arabica coffee is genetically similar: how can beans taste so different? (www.nature.com)
Seven technologies to watch in 2024 (www.nature.com)
A New Antibiotic Traps Lipopolysaccharide in Its Intermembrane Transporter (www.nature.com)
Surge in extreme forest fires fuels global emissions (www.nature.com)
Scientists skip COP28 to demand climate action at home (www.nature.com)
Antibiotic identified by AI (www.nature.com)
Sadly, I can’t seem to find the full, non paywalled version of the article ._.
What is the human body’s limit, when it comes to extreme heat? (www.nature.com)
As deadly heatwaves become more common, researchers are studying what the human body can tolerate.
US science agencies on track to hit 25-year funding low (www.nature.com)
Last year, lawmakers in the United States passed bipartisan legislation intended to maintain US competitiveness with countries such as China by boosting funding for science and innovation. But concerns are mounting that the US Congress will fail to deliver on its promises....
Inhibition of fatty acid oxidation enables heart regeneration in adult mice (www.nature.com)
Why Japan is building its own version of ChatGPT (www.nature.com)
cross-posted from !aistuff
Decades-long bet on consciousness ends — and it’s philosopher 1, neuroscientist 0 (www.nature.com)
A 25-year science wager has come to an end. In 1998, neuroscientist Christof Koch bet philosopher David Chalmers that the mechanism by which the brain’s neurons produce consciousness would be discovered by 2023. Both scientists agreed publicly on 23 June, at the annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of...
Tropical-forest destruction has slowed — but is still too high (www.nature.com)
How CRISPR could yield the next blockbuster crop (www.nature.com)
Tasmanian devil die-off is shifting another predator’s genetics (www.nature.com)
Devil population crashes caused by contagious tumours have knock-on effects elsewhere in the food chain....
How CRISPR could yield the next blockbuster crop (www.nature.com)
Potent psychedelic drug banishes PTSD, small study finds (www.nature.com)
Ancient humans painted scenes in Indonesian caves more than 45,000 years ago, but their art is disappearing rapidly. (www.nature.com)
‘Biocomputer’ combines lab-grown brain tissue with electronic hardware (www.nature.com)
Dirty air is linked to smaller babies across huge swathes of Asia and Africa (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....
What the OpenAI drama means for AI progress — and safety (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....
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...
Astronomy society revises harassment policy after outcry (www.nature.com)
The International Astronomical Union clarified changes to its code of conduct after researchers voiced concern that it protected harassers.
