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Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory (www.nature.com)

More than 4,000 plastic chemicals are hazardous, report finds (www.nature.com)

The report was released on 14 March, in time for the next round of negotiations for a United Nations treaty on global plastic pollution. Scientists have been campaigning for the treaty, which deals with all aspects of plastic production and waste management, to include a list of plastic polymers and chemicals of concern — some...

Why the world cannot afford the rich (www.nature.com)

The first demonstration of entirely roll-to-roll fabricated perovskite solar cell modules under ambient room conditions (www.nature.com)

Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale (www.nature.com)

Millions of research papers at risk of disappearing from the Internet (www.nature.com)

Notable Shifts Beyond Pre-Industrial Streamflow and Soil Moisture Conditions Transgress the Planetary Boundary for Freshwater Change (www.nature.com)

Robot, repair thyself: laying the foundations for self-healing machines (www.nature.com)

Mind-reading devices are revealing the brain’s secrets (www.nature.com)

Arctic marine heatwaves forced by greenhouse gases and triggered by abrupt sea-ice melt (www.nature.com)

Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret (www.nature.com)

one assessment suggests that ChatGPT, the chatbot created by OpenAI in San Francisco, California, is already consuming the energy of 33,000 homes. It’s estimated that a search driven by generative AI uses four to five times the energy of a conventional web search. Within years, large AI systems are likely to need as much...

Excess protein consumption in western societies can lead to cardiovascular risks (www.nature.com)

The bugs around the streetlight are being tricked to think they are going in a straight line. They are doing the aerial equivalent of an ant death spiral. (www.nature.com)

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What the EU’s tough AI law means for research and ChatGPT (www.nature.com)

What a tease! Great apes pull hair and poke each other for fun (www.nature.com)

Climatologist Michael Mann wins defamation case: what it means for scientists (www.nature.com)

Signatures of a surface spin–orbital chiral metal - Nature (www.nature.com)

Cyberattacks on knowledge institutions are increasing: what can be done? (www.nature.com)

In one study, researchers analysed 58 cyberattacks between 1988 and 2022 on universities, schools and other organizations worldwide, and found that the frequency of attacks had increased since 2015 (H. Singh Lallie et al. Preprint at arxiv.org/abs/2307.07755; 2023). Information on the attacks was gleaned from publicly available...

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