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Daily briefing: The man sniffing out fraudsters that sell fake degrees
Meet the sleuth hunting fraudulent organizations selling phoney degrees. Plus, we imagine how Ozempic-type drugs might transform...
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nature
The baseless stat that could be harming Indigenous conservation efforts
Researchers have identified that a commonly repeated claim about levels of biodiversity on Indigenous lands is not only wrong, it is also...
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nature
A new hydrogel can be directly injected into muscle to help it regenerate
A soft and conductive material shows promise for muscle rehabilitation, and why starfishes have such strange body plans. Download the Nature Podcast 01...
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nature
Bacteria implanted in fungi hints at ancient relationships that helped cells evolve
Biologists created a symbiotic system that hints at how features such as mitochondria and chloroplasts might have emerged a billion years ago. At all...
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nature
Virtual lab powered by ‘AI scientists’ super-charges biomedical research
Could human–AI collaborations be the future of interdisciplinary studies? Postdoctor in tumor immunity Reference number PAR 2024/1129 The University...
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nature
Daily briefing: Great Barrier Reef is experiencing its worst mass bleaching event on record
Iconic coral reef is ‘transforming’ from repeated bleaching events. Plus, researchers face the possibility of animal consciousness and science...
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nature
Daily briefing: You’ve got space mail! Asteroid sample delivered to Earth
A haul of rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu has been successfully dropped off in the US desert. Plus, AlphaFold is touted as the...
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nature
Google AI could soon use a person’s cough to diagnose disease
Machine- learning system trained on millions of human audio clips shows promise for detecting COVID-19 and tuberculosis. Mariana Lenharo A team led by...
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nature
The world's oldest forest - dating back 385 million years - is in the U.S.
In 2009, while examining an old quarry, Charles Ver Straeten, the curator of sedimentary rocks at the New York State Museum, noticed something...
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nature
Female elephants rumble to say 'let's go!' Namibian study shows males do too, a sign of unexpected social bonds
In elephant family groups made up of related females and their young, it is clear that the animals produce vocal sounds to coordinate action. This...
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nature
Can autoimmune diseases be cured? Scientists see hope at last
After decades of frustration and failed attempts, scientists might finally be on the cusp of developing therapies to restore immune ‘tolerance’ in...
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nature
Daily briefing: Japanese spacecraft makes a pin-point landing on the Moon
Japan has become the fifth country to land a lunar spacecraft. Plus, Nature’s pick of the technologies to get excited about and how to...
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nature
Largest Golden Eagle Ever Recorded
The Golden Eagle, a symbol of power and grace in the avian world, has captured the imagination of nature enthusiasts for centuries. Among these...
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nature
Alphafold 3.0: the AI protein predictor gets an upgrade
Deepmind’s protein-structure predictor adds other molecules to the mix, and a big step towards a ‘nuclear clock’. Download the Nature Podcast 8 May 2024...
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nature
How to kill the ‘zombie’ cells that make you age
Researchers are using new molecules, engineered immune cells and gene therapy to kill senescent cells and treat age-related diseases. Lurking...
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nature
China could start building world’s biggest particle collider in 2027
The US $ 5 billion facility would be cheaper, bigger and faster to build than a similar one proposed by European scientists. Gemma Conroy China hopes to...
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nature
Climate research should integrate multiple approaches, argue researchers
Climate research currently has a wide range of new tools at its disposal. This has sparked a debate about the merits of each and raised...
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nature
More than 4,000 plastic chemicals are hazardous, report finds
Year- long effort compiles comprehensive database of chemicals in plastics. Nicola Jones After a year of trawling through scientific reports and...
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nature
Daily briefing: CAR-T-cell therapy recipient nears two decades in cancer remission
A woman who received CAR-T-cell therapy has now been in cancer remission for 19 years. Plus, a genetic swap makes mice squeak differently. CAR T...
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nature
Grasslands are responding to climate change almost in real time , according to research
Although all ecosystems are affected by a changing climate, the impacts can take a while to appear. Changes in forest biodiversity, for example, are...
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nature
First fossil chromosomes discovered in freeze-dried mammoth skin
The 3D arrangement of the DNA in the animal’s cells hints at which genes were active. Giorgia Guglielmi Giorgia Guglielmi is a science journalist...
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nature
Engineered yeast breaks new record: a genome with over 50% synthetic DNA
Highly edited strain survives and replicates despite containing 7.5 artificial chromosomes. Katherine Bourzac Biologists have produced a strain of...
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nature
Hope, despair and CRISPR — the race to save one woman’s life
Researchers in India fought to develop what could have been the first therapy to use gene-editing to halt a rare neurodegenerative disease. The...
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nature
Daily briefing: Deepfakes hawk fake drugs using scientists’ faces
Scammers are using images of respected researchers in deepfakes, a setback for the approval of MDMA as a treatment for PTSD and scientists who fled...
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Scientists just uncovered a shocking twist in the story of human evolution
For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage in Africa. However,...
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nature
Discover the Most Colorful Bird In the World - AATG
There are countless avian species that have insane colors and pigments, we’ve taken a look at one in particular that we think might just...
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nature
CAR-T therapy for multiple sclerosis enters US trials for first time
Hopes are high that engineered immune cells, which are already in use to treat blood cancer, will halt the progression of a degenerative autoimmune...
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nature
‘Treasure trove’ of new CRISPR systems holds promise for genome editing
An algorithm that can analyse hundreds of millions of genetic sequences has identified DNA-cutting genes and enzymes that are extremely rare in...
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nature
Daily briefing: Scientists almost have nuclear clocks ticking
Scientists have demonstrated all of the ingredients they need to make a nuclear clock. Plus, a study sheds light on how the immune systems of...
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nature
These frog 'saunas’ could help endangered species fight off a deadly fungus
How a hot resting spot can help frogs survive chytridiomycosis infection, and the decades-long hunt for dark matter in black holes. Download the Nature...
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nature
Haunting Final Footage of Now-Extinct Animals Reminds Us What’s at Stake
Some well-known extinct species, such as the dodo, have been gone for centuries, meaning that there are no photos of videos that show us what...
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nature
Science could solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Why aren’t governments using it?
A Nature global survey finds that most specialists are unhappy with systems to provide science advice to policymakers. Killer viruses. Artificial...
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nature
Intimate photos show chimps using insects as medicine to treat each other's wounds in Gabon
Chimpanzees in Gabon’s Loango National Park have been observed treating each others’ wounds using insects – a unique demonstration of potentially...
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nature / science
Yellowstone's iconic bison herds have merged into a single entity after 100 years of wandering the park
More than 100 years after bison from other regions were introduced to the park, the two genetically distinct herds have finally become one. Bison in...
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nature
Is that a durian? No, it’s a weird ancient mollusc
A 510-million-year-old creature that looked like the famously smelly fruit suggests that the earliest molluscs were covered in hollow spines. Ewen...
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nature
World’s largest telescope pauses expansion amid funding crunch
The Square Kilometre Array will take longer to expand further into eight African nations than originally planned. We are looking for an excellent...
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nature
Milton Is the Hurricane That Scientists Were Dreading
Climate change set up the Gulf of Mexico to birth a storm this strong, this fast. As Hurricane Milton exploded from a Category 1 storm into...
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nature
Will AI’s huge energy demands spur a nuclear renaissance?
Contracts with Google and Amazon could help, but bringing new types of reactor online will take larger investments — and time . Davide Castelvecchi Last...
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nature
Largest post-pandemic survey finds trust in scientists is high
Study of more than 70,000 people suggests that trust levels vary among countries and are linked to political orientation. Carissa Wong People around...
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nature
Daily briefing: How a boy from the Bronx unearthed the workings of the Universe
Discover how to craft the perfect ‘cold e-mail’ job application. Plus, the swashbuckling memoir of physicist Steven Weinberg. COVID’s immune system...
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nature
Hailstorms Drive Up Insurance Costs Across the U.S.
Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, reports that the U.S. has experienced over 380 hailstorms this year, primarily in central...
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nature
What is an embryo? Scientists say definition needs to change
Lab- grown structures with the potential to develop into fetuses should be defined — and regulated — as embryos, some researchers say. Philip Ball It is...
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nature
Melting glaciers will reveal vast new ecosystems in need of protection
The emerging habitats represent huge ecological shifts and present new challenges for conservation. Jeff Tollefson Rising temperatures could reduce the...
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nature
Rapid sepsis test identifies bacteria that spark life-threatening infection
New method can help guide treatment with most effective antibiotic — plus how things get weird when an AI is trained on AI-created text. Download the...
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nature
Reproducibility trial: 246 biologists get different results from same data sets
Wide distribution of findings shows how analytical choices drive conclusions. The Kotak School of Sustainability at IIT Kanpur, India...
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nature
Budget cuts hit world’s largest cancer-research funder: what it means for scientists
The US National Cancer Institute is prioritizing young investigators as it navigates its first funding decline in nearly a decade. Heidi Ledford For...
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nature
A lone dolphin has been yelling into Baltic Sea for years
No one is responding. A solitary dolphin swimming off Denmark’s frigid coast is chirping and yelling into the vast nothingness, and no one is...
popsci.com
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nature
What does peak emissions mean for China — and the world?
The milestone is essential for slowing global warming, but the hard work is still to come. The School of Engineering (SOE) at Westlake University is...
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nature
Gravitational waves from giant black-hole collision reveal long-sought ‘ringing’
Researchers find massive merger’s signature aftershocks hidden in 2019 data from LIGO and Virgo detectors. A unique four-year program that lets you...
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nature
Reindeer can activate sleep mode while eating
Putting the brain into sleep mode helps to maximize food intake during bountiful Arctic summers. We are pleased to announce that Stanford Radiology...
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