This GPT-powered robot chemist designs reactions and makes drugs — on its own (www.nature.com)
A system called Coscientist scours the Internet for instructions, then designs and executes experiments to synthesize molecules.
AI reads text from ancient Herculaneum scroll for the first time (www.nature.com)
Half a million children die of malaria every year. Finally we can change that (www.nature.com)
With two vaccines available, this killer disease could now be eliminated — but will the world pull together to make it happen?
Song lyrics have become simpler and more repetitive over the last five decades - Scientific Reports (www.nature.com)
Tiny robots made from human cells heal damaged tissue (www.nature.com)
Misunderstanding the harms of online misinformation (www.nature.com)
Why loneliness is bad for your health (www.nature.com)
Nature retracts controversial superconductivity paper by embattled physicist (www.nature.com)
Second malaria vaccine to win global approval is cheaper and easier to make (www.nature.com)
The World Health Organization has recommended a shot called R21 to prevent the disease in children....
Why a blockbuster superconductivity claim met a wall of scepticism (www.nature.com)
Physicist Ranga Dias and his colleagues have twice claimed to make a room-temperature superconductor. But many researchers question the evidence.
Tropical forests are approaching critical temperature thresholds (www.nature.com)
Study that followed thousands of people over 25 years has identified proteins linked to the development of dementia if their levels are unbalanced during middle age. (www.nature.com)
China could start building world’s biggest particle collider in 2027 (www.nature.com)
Misinformation poses a bigger threat to democracy than you might think (www.nature.com)
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Could bird flu in cows lead to a human outbreak? Slow response worries scientists (www.nature.com)
Researchers also say more sampling is needed. Almost 50 herds of dairy cattle across 9 US states have had confirmed cases of H5N1, and one infected person has been linked to the outbreak. But the actual numbers are probably much higher, scientists say. “There’s almost certainly been a lot more human cases than just the...
Is the Internet bad for you? Huge study reveals surprise effect on well-being (www.nature.com)
A survey of more than 2.4 million people finds that being online can have a positive effect on welfare.
Widespread extracellular electron transfer pathways for charging microbial cytochrome OmcS nanowires via periplasmic cytochromes PpcABCDE - Nature Communications (www.nature.com)
Robot, repair thyself: laying the foundations for self-healing machines (www.nature.com)
‘Biocomputer’ combines lab-grown brain tissue with electronic hardware (www.nature.com)
Researchers have built a hybrid biocomputer — combining laboratory-grown human brain tissue with conventional electronic circuits — that can complete tasks such as voice recognition....
More than 10,000 research papers were retracted in 2023 (www.nature.com)
The number of retractions issued for research articles in 2023 has passed 10,000 — smashing annual records — as publishers struggle to clean up a slew of sham papers and peer-review fraud. Among large research-producing nations, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Russia and China have the highest retraction rates over the past two...
‘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.
Antibiotic identified by AI (www.nature.com)
Sadly, I can’t seem to find the non paywalled version of the article ._.
Observation of an Alice ring in a Bose–Einstein condensate - Nature Communications (www.nature.com)
From the lab to the World Cup: meet footballer–scientist Michelle Alozie (www.nature.com)
The professional athlete and research technician explains why focus, collaboration and teamwork are important on and off the pitch.
