Dirty air is linked to smaller babies across huge swathes of Asia and Africa (www.nature.com)
Catastrophic change looms as Earth nears climate ‘tipping points’, report says (www.nature.com)
Scientists skip COP28 to demand climate action at home (www.nature.com)
IBM releases first-ever 1,000-qubit quantum chip (www.nature.com)
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)
What the OpenAI drama means for AI progress — and safety (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...
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)
Nature retracts controversial superconductivity paper by embattled physicist (www.nature.com)
The new Twitter is becoming a cesspit of disinformation (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)
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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)
Toxic workplaces are the main reason women leave academic jobs (www.nature.com)
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....