Antibiotic identified by AI (www.nature.com)
Sadly, I can’t seem to find the full, non paywalled version of the article ._.
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.
Why Japan is building its own version of ChatGPT (www.nature.com)
cross-posted from !aistuff
AI for identifying social norm violation (www.nature.com)
Prof. Yair Neuman and the engineer Yochai Cohen at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have designed an AI system that identifies social norm violations. They trained a system to identify ten social emotions: competence, politeness, trust, discipline, caring, agreeableness, success, conformity, decency, and loyalty....
Inhibition of fatty acid oxidation enables heart regeneration in adult mice (www.nature.com)
Risks of synchronized low yields are underestimated in climate and crop model projections (www.nature.com)
Just ran into a link to this article from another medium. While I realize this is speculations, it’s still a summary of models that look at the risk of concurrent global crop failures....
First global survey reveals who is doing ‘gain of function’ research on pathogens and why (www.nature.com)
As US policymakers spar over how to regulate research involving potentially harmful pathogens, a report finds that it will be difficult to do so without compromising studies that are necessary for creating vaccines and life-saving therapies....
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.
Rings of RNA could be the next blockbuster drug (www.nature.com)
The commercial success of RNA vaccines for COVID-19 has revved up interest in circular RNAs as the next generation of therapies. This is because linear RNA molecules have a fleeting existence inside cells-which is not a problem for it’s function as vaccine, but for other therapeutic applications longer existence is preferable....
Long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection on human brain and memory - Cell Death Discovery (www.nature.com)
Observation of an Alice ring in a Bose–Einstein condensate - Nature Communications (www.nature.com)
Engineered yeast breaks new record: a genome with over 50% synthetic DNA (www.nature.com)
Earth’s hottest month: these charts show what happened in July and what comes next (www.nature.com)
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.
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.
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....
The UK’s post-Brexit EU science deal: a graphical guide (www.nature.com)
Consciousness theory slammed as ‘pseudoscience’ — sparking uproar (www.nature.com)
Researchers publicly call out theory that they say is not well supported by science, but that gets undue attention....
Unavoidable future increase in West Antarctic ice-shelf melting over the twenty-first century (www.nature.com)
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...
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....