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Outdated rules on expenses prevent academics from travelling more sustainably Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
Letter to the Editor
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Amazing Australopithecus — excitement from 1925 about a ‘man ape’ fossil find Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
Snippets from Nature’s past.
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Close the biodiversity funding gap by teaching conservation to financial professionals Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
Letter to the Editor
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‘Aqua tweezers’ manipulate particles with water waves Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
Researchers create precise 3D patterns with water-waves.
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Nature markets are nothing new — they are widespread, regulated and instructive Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
Letter to the Editor
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Federico Mayor Zaragoza obituary: former UNESCO chief who championed neonatal screening Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
The biochemist introduced the first heel-prick tests for newborn babies in Spain, protecting infants from life-changing metabolic conditions.
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Your brain is full of microplastics: are they harming you? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs. Scientists are scrambling to understand their effects on health.
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‘Male-dominated campuses belong to the past’: the University of Tokyo tackles the gender gap Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
A range of initiatives, from financial-support schemes to awareness campaigns, is already changing the university’s environment.
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Japan can be a science heavyweight once more — if it rethinks funding Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Keisuke Goda, Tatsushi Igaki, Bernd Kuhn, Noboru Mizushima, Takeharu Nagai, Atsuhiro Nakagawa, Noriko Osumi, Amy Q. Shen, Masahiro Sonoshita, Masashi Yanagisawa
The nation must lose its tight focus on individual disciplines if it is to keep pace with the evolving requirements of scientific enquiry.
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Earth’s mysterious inner core really is changing shape Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
Earthquakes ringing through the planet illuminate how its heart is transforming.
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The Greenland Ice Sheet is fracturing faster than expected Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Holly Smith
Cracks in Greenland's glaciers deepened by climate change.
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A man was destined for early Alzheimer’s — these genes might explain his escape Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
Scientists identify nine genetic variants that could have helped a man to avoid dementia for at least two decades longer than expected.
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Daily briefing: How did childhood evolve? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
An AI system is crushing it at the International Mathematical Olympiad. Plus, what an iconic fossil teaches us about the evolution of childhood.
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‘Devastating’ cuts to NIH grants by Trump’s team put on hold by US judge Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
The ruling temporarily halts a policy slashing research overhead costs in 22 states, which filed a lawsuit against the biomedical agency.
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Author Correction: A map of the rubisco biochemical landscape Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Noam Prywes, Naiya R. Phillips, Luke M. Oltrogge, Sebastian Lindner, Leah J. Taylor-Kearney, Yi-Chin Candace Tsai, Benoit de Pins, Aidan E. Cowan, Hana A. Chang, Renée Z. Wang, Laina N. Hall, Daniel Bellieny-Rabelo, Hunter M. Nisonoff, Rachel F. Weissman, Avi I. Flamholz, David Ding, Abhishek Y. Bhatt, Oliver Mueller-Cajar, Patrick M. Shih, Ron Milo, David F. Savage
Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08455-0 Published online 22 January 2025
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On the caveats of AI autophagy Nat. Mach. Intell. (IF 18.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Xiaodan Xing, Fadong Shi, Jiahao Huang, Yinzhe Wu, Yang Nan, Sheng Zhang, Yingying Fang, Michael Roberts, Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, Javier Del Ser, Guang Yang
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I grow medicinal mushrooms in my renewable-energy laboratory Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
When Ho Thi Thanh Van isn’t creating materials for fuel cells, she is cultivating traditional medicines.
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Breaking language barriers: ‘Not being fluent in English is often viewed as being an inferior scientist’ Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
Biologist Tatsuya Amano works to make science a fairer place for non-fluent speakers.
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How to end outrage and detoxify politics: share stories, not statistics Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
A book on human morality claims that although liberals and conservatives prioritize different victims, mutual understanding is still possible.
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How and why my company pivoted from energy to agritechnology Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
Lambda Agri chief executive Monica Saavedra describes funding strategies and the circumstances leading to the company changing strategic direction.
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Daily briefing: People in dense crowds move in swirls Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
People begin to move in vortices in densely packed crowds. Plus, the scientists who kept research alive in Gaza during the Israel–Hamas conflict.
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Daily briefing: How mantis shrimps survive landing the world’s fastest punch Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
What’s behind the mantis shrimp’s powerful punch? Plus, six ways to cultivate allyship for a diverse, equitable and inclusive academia.
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Improving Adversarial Training from the Perspective of Class-Flipping Distribution IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. (IF 20.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Dawei Zhou, Nannan Wang, Tongliang Liu, Xinbo Gao
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Implicit Shape and Appearance Priors for Few-Shot Full Head Reconstruction IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. (IF 20.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Pol Caselles, Eduard Ramon, Jaime García, Gil Triginer, Francesc Moreno-Noguer
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Convection-Diffusion Equation: a Theoretically Certified Framework for Neural Networks IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. (IF 20.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Tangjun Wang, Chenglong Bao, Zuoqiang Shi
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“We are a target”: scientific society under pressure after Trump DEI crackdown Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
The American Society for Microbiology deleted terms such as equity from its website, sparking protests from members.
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Have Trump’s anti-DEI orders hit private funders? HHMI halts inclusive science programme Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a huge funder of biomedical research, has cut a $60-million initiative to boost diversity in science education.
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DeepMind AI crushes tough maths problems on par with top human solvers Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
The company’s AlphaGeometry2 reaches the level of gold-medal students in the International Mathematical Olympiad.
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Deep Learning Based Image Aesthetic Quality Assessment- A Review ACM Comput. Surv. (IF 23.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-08 Maedeh Daryanavard Chounchenani, Asadollah Shahbahrami, Reza Hassanpour, Georgi Gaydadjiev
Image Aesthetic Quality Assessment (IAQA) spans applications such as the fashion industry, AI-generated content, product design, and e-commerce. Recent deep learning advancements have been employed to evaluate image aesthetic quality. A few surveys have been conducted on IAQA models; however, details of recent deep learning models and challenges have not been fully mentioned. This paper aims to fill
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Poetry on Mars and robots on Earth: Books in brief Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
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Bonobos know when you’re in the know ― and when you’re not Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
The apes can tailor their communications to account for a human partner’s level of knowledge.
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From viral variants to devastating storms, how names shape the public's reaction to science Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
In episode 2 of 'What's in a name' we look at the how names can help scientists communicate with the public.
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Scientists globally are racing to save vital health databases taken down amid Trump chaos Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
The mass-archiving effort is in response to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removing some of its web pages.
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How my research focus exposed me to threats and harassment Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
Researchers who investigate highly-politicized topics can face harassment, others for their race, gender identity or disability. Two scientists share their stories.
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Granzyme K activates the entire complement cascade Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06 Carlos A. Donado, Erin Theisen, Fan Zhang, Aparna Nathan, Madison L. Fairfield, Karishma Vijay Rupani, Dominique Jones, Kellsey P. Johannes, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Daniel F. Dwyer, A. Helena Jonsson, Michael B. Brenner
Granzymes are a family of serine proteases mainly expressed by CD8+ T cells, natural killer cells, and innate-like lymphocytes1. Although their primary function is thought to be the induction of cell death in virally infected and tumor cells, accumulating evidence indicates certain granzymes can elicit inflammation by acting on extracellular substrates1. Recently, we found that the majority of tissue
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Mantis shrimp have the world’s fastest punch — here’s how their limbs survive Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
Insights from probing the shock-absorbing layer within the crustacean’s club-like claw could inspire the design of tough new materials.
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Record-setting trove of buried beads speaks to power of ancient women Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
A Copper Age burial in Spain holds the largest collection of beads ever found ― enough to require a tonne of shellfish as raw material.
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How to make the perfect egg: give it lukewarm baths Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
Process turns out eggs with delectable texture and high nutritional value.
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Daily briefing: Genetically modified pig-organ transplant trial gets green light Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
The first pig-organ transplant trial in humans has been approved. Plus, the internet doesn't affect our memories, but AI might.
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How the brain suppresses fear: mouse study offers path to anxiety treatments Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
Two brain regions work together when mice learn to override the instinct to run and hide from a potential threat.
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OpenAI’s ‘deep research’ tool: is it useful for scientists? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
The model produces cited, pages-long reports that might be helpful for generating literature reviews.
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Engineered nose bacteria sneak drugs into the brain Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
Microbes that reside peaceably in the nasal passageways and on the skin can be harnessed for taking drugs to target cells.
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‘It is chaos’: US funding freezes are endangering global health Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
Abrupt changes to programmes including USAID inhibit global efforts to stop disease such as HIV, malaria and more, say researchers.
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The weight-loss drugs being tested in 2025: will they beat Ozempic? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
Drug companies are trialling a host of medications that they hope will offer benefits beyond weight loss.
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Kidney multiome-based genetic scorecard reveals convergent coding and regulatory variants. Science (IF 44.7) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 Hongbo Liu,Amin Abedini,Eunji Ha,Ziyuan Ma,Xin Sheng,Bernhard Dumoulin,Chengxiang Qiu,Tamas Aranyi,Shen Li,Nicole Dittrich,Hua-Chang Chen,Ran Tao,Der-Cherng Tarng,Feng-Jen Hsieh,Shih-Ann Chen,Shun-Fa Yang,Mei-Yueh Lee,Pui-Yan Kwok,Jer-Yuarn Wu,Chien-Hsiun Chen,Atlas Khan,Nita A Limdi,Wei-Qi Wei,Theresa L Walunas,Elizabeth W Karlson,Eimear E Kenny,Yuan Luo,Leah Kottyan,John J Connolly,Gail P Jarvik
Kidney dysfunction is a major cause of mortality, but its genetic architecture remains elusive. In this study, we conducted a multiancestry genome-wide association study in 2.2 million individuals and identified 1026 (97 previously unknown) independent loci. Ancestry-specific analysis indicated an attenuation of newly identified signals on common variants in European ancestry populations and the power
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AI Agents Under Threat: A Survey of Key Security Challenges and Future Pathways ACM Comput. Surv. (IF 23.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 Zehang Deng, Yongjian Guo, Changzhou Han, Wanlun Ma, Junwu Xiong, Sheng Wen, Yang Xiang
An Artificial Intelligence (AI) agent is a software entity that autonomously performs tasks or makes decisions based on pre-defined objectives and data inputs. AI agents, capable of perceiving user inputs, reasoning and planning tasks, and executing actions, have seen remarkable advancements in algorithm development and task performance. However, the security challenges they pose remain under-explored
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MS-NeRF: Multi-Space Neural Radiance Fields IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. (IF 20.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 Ze-Xin Yin, Peng-Yi Jiao, Jiaxiong Qiu, Ming-Ming Cheng, Bo Ren
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Digging Deeper in Gradient for Unrolling-based Accelerated MRI Reconstruction IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. (IF 20.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 Faming Fang, Tingting Wang, Guixu Zhang, Fang Li
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C2P-Net: Comprehensive Depth Map to Planar Depth Conversion for Room Layout Estimation IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. (IF 20.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 Weidong Zhang, Mengjie Zhou, Jiyu Cheng, Ying Liu, Wei Zhang
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Instruct-ReID++: Towards Universal Purpose Instruction-Guided Person Re-identification IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. (IF 20.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 Weizhen He, Yiheng Deng, Yunfeng Yan, Feng Zhu, Yizhou Wang, Lei Bai, Qingsong Xie, Rui Zhao, Donglian Qi, Wanli Ouyang, Shixiang Tang
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The promise of generative AI for suicide prevention in India Nat. Mach. Intell. (IF 18.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-06 Tanmoy Chakraborty, Koushik Sinha Deb, Himanshu Kulkarni, Sarah Masud, Suresh Bada Math, Gayatri Oke, Rajesh Sagar, Mona Sharma
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates a global suicide rate of 9 per 100,000 people, amounting to 720,000 preventable deaths each year. Despite concerted multisectoral efforts, suicide prevention remains a complex public health challenge, shaped by the interplay of socioeconomic, cultural and stress-related factors. In India, the decriminalization of suicide via the 2017 Mental Healthcare Act1
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Discovering fully semantic representations via centroid- and orientation-aware feature learning Nat. Mach. Intell. (IF 18.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-06 Jaehoon Cha, Jinhae Park, Samuel Pinilla, Kyle L. Morris, Christopher S. Allen, Mark I. Wilkinson, Jeyan Thiyagalingam
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The science behind the first pig-organ transplant trial in humans Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-04
The small trial will help to establish whether kidneys from genetically modified pigs can be transplanted into people safely and effectively.
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Fish gills and human ears share the same genetic blueprint Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-04 Ruiqi Liu, Maksim V. Plikus
Evolutionarily conserved molecular program used to form gills and ears.
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Drill, baby, drill? Trump policies will hurt climate ― but US green transition is under way Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-04
Market forces could undercut the administration’s plans to increase the use of fossil fuels such as oil and petrol.
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Daily briefing: A ‘data apocalypse’ at US public-health agencies Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-03
The month’s most stunning science images. Plus, a ‘data apocalypse’ as US public-health agencies move to comply with wide-ranging executive orders.
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How to sell your science without selling out Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
A five-step guide to communicating your science ethically and accurately.
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These Gaza scientists are keeping research alive amid war, destruction and uncertainty Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
Researchers in Gaza tell Nature of ‘unwavering commitment to education and knowledge’ as most universities lie damaged or destroyed.
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Crowd crush: Could fluid dynamics save lives? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-05
Scientists studying the controversial 'running of the bulls' discover unique crowd movements they hope could prevent overcrowding deaths