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AI’s international research networks mapped Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
A few key countries have become hubs of collaboration in artificial intelligence.
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This ‘scuba diving’ lizard has a self-made air supply Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
A bubble of air on its snout extends the water anole’s underwater time by more than a minute.
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Rise of ChatGPT and other tools raises major questions for research Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
AI is changing the way researchers work forever, but human expertise must continue to hold sway.
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Artificial intelligence laws in the US states are feeling the weight of corporate lobbying Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
The power of big tech is outstripping any ‘Brussels effect’ from the EU’s AI Act.
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The UK’s $1-billion bet to create technologies that change the world Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
It was modelled after DARPA, the hugely successful US tech funder. Can Britain’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency — ARIA — create revolutionary innovations?
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A brain circuit that cements the memory of socially learnt food preferences Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
A region of the mouse brain’s cortical amygdala consolidates memory of an odour it could smell on another mouse.
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Science-policy advisers shape programmes that solve real-world problems Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
Four scientists discuss how they broke into the field and how they use evidence to tackle society’s problems.
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A guide to the Nature Index Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
A description of the terminology and methodology used in this supplement, and a guide to the functionality that is available free online at natureindex.com.
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A broader view of the diversity of human gene expression Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
An RNA-sequencing data set compiled from individuals from around the world provides insights into variation in gene expression.
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Can AI be used to assess research quality? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
Chatbots and other tools are increasingly being considered, but people power is still seen as a safer option.
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Why AI might be a game-changer for Africa Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
Researchers across the continent are using artificial intelligence to design bespoke solutions for health, development and more.
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Rage against machine learning driven by profit Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
Industry research funding is vastly eclipsing academia’s spend, but healthy development demands broad input.
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Why aren’t there talks with the Taliban about getting women and girls back into education? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-18
World leaders are restarting their engagement with the Taliban — yet the rights of half of the population is not on their official agenda.
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A small fix to cut beer intake: downsize the pint Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-17
Total alcohol consumed fell at establishments in England that replaced the classic imperial pint with a two-thirds measure.
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‘The standard model is not dead’: ultra-precise particle measurement thrills physicists Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-17
CERN’s calculation of the W boson’s mass agrees with theory, contradicting a previous anomaly that had raised the possibility of new physics.
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Should young kids take the new anti-obesity drugs? What the research says Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-17
Evidence shows that blockbuster weight-loss medications can reduce obesity even in children aged 6–11, but their long-term effects on growing bodies are unknown.
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Daily briefing: AlphaFold reveals ‘family tree’ of viruses Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-17
AlphaFold reveals how viruses including hepatitis C, dengue and Zika evolved. Plus, mosquito-borne diseases are on the rise in Europe — are scientists worried?
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UN Pact for the Future: Scientists must step up to accelerate sustainability goals Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-17
Letter to the Editor
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A triple rainbow all the way across the sky — 150 years ago Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-17
Snippets from Nature’s past.
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My identity was stolen by a predatory conference Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-17
Letter to the Editor
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To combat antimicrobial resistance, invest in test-to-treat strategies Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-17
Letter to the Editor
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AI model collapse might be prevented by studying human language transmission Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-17
Letter to the Editor
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40 million deaths by 2050: toll of drug-resistant infections to rise by 70% Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-17
By 2050, around 2 million people — the majority aged over 70 — could die from drug-resistant infections each year.
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Tackling antimicrobial resistance needs a tailored approach — four specialists weigh in Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Senjuti Saha, Ana Cristina Gales, Iruka N. Okeke, Nour Shamas
Ahead of a United Nations meeting on the global challenge of drug-resistant infections, Nature asked health-care experts in emerging economies to describe what would address the issue in their country or region most effectively.
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Stop delaying action on antimicrobial resistance — it is achievable and affordable Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-17
Ensuring that clinics in low- and middle-income countries are well-stocked with high-quality antibiotics could help physicians to treat millions of people each year and slow the spread of drug resistance.
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Unearthing ‘hidden’ science would help to tackle the world’s biggest problems Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-17
Tens of thousands of studies evaluating government programmes are collecting dust in institutional vaults. Sharing them could benefit everyone.
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Doctors cured her sickle-cell disease. So why is she still in pain? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-17
Gene and cell therapies bring fresh hope to people with genetic disorders, but recovery can be complex and long-term support remains sparse.
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Mosquito-borne diseases are surging in Europe — how worried are scientists? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-16
Diseases such as West Nile virus and dengue are becoming increasingly common as the insects that spread them move north.
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Daily briefing: Common diabetes drug slows monkey brain-ageing Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-16
A common diabetes drug slows monkey brain-ageing by the human equivalent of 18 years. Plus, research-integrity sleuths call out journals for ‘stealth corrections’ and a new commission convenes to protect our mental health from snowballing environmental harms.
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Where did viruses come from? AlphaFold and other AIs are finding answers Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-16
Protein structures predicted by artificial intelligence have charted the evolution of the virus family responsible for dengue and hepatitis C.
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“My Aim Is True”: An Attribution-Identity Model of Ally Sincerity Pers. Soc. Psychol. Rev. (IF 7.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Charlotte E. Moser, Shaun Wiley
Academic AbstractAdvantaged group allies have multiple motives for supporting equality, raising questions about their sincerity. We draw upon the covariation model of attributions to explain how disadvantaged group members make attributions about whether advantaged group “allies” are sincerely motivated to empower the disadvantaged group. We propose an Attribution-Identity Model of Sincerity (AIMS)
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In the Mind’s Eye: Exploring the Relationship Between Visual Mental Imagery and Stereotyping Pers. Soc. Psychol. Rev. (IF 7.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Benjamin E. Eisenstadt, Alfredo Spagna, Steven J. Stroessner
Academic AbstractHow do social stereotypes shape and reflect images formed in the mind’s eye? Visual mental imagery has long been assumed crucial in creating, maintaining, and perpetuating stereotypes and prejudice. Surprisingly, research in social cognition has only recently begun to explore the causal role of mental images in these phenomena. In contrast, cognitive neuroscience research on visual
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Islands are rich with languages spoken nowhere else Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-16
Extremely remote islands are more likely than less isolated ones to have a high number of endemic languages.
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I fire darts at whales to help track their movements Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-16
Yakamoz Kizildas collects the DNA of humpback whales to learn about their behaviour in the North Atlantic ocean.
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When physicists strove for peace: past lessons for our uncertain times Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-16
Can science be a route to peace and common understanding? A glance at the history of one institution shows: only when scientists actively commit to it.
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Forget ChatGPT: why researchers now run small AIs on their laptops Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-16
Artificial-intelligence models are typically used online, but a host of openly available tools is changing that. Here’s how to get started with local AIs.
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The Burning Earth: how conquest and carnage have decimated landscapes worldwide Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-16
An epic exploration of human history examines how the poor and powerless have fought back — time and again — against those seeking to profit from the planet’s natural resources.
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Daily briefing: Why we choke under pressure Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-13
How our neuron activity drops in high-stakes situations, meet the organizations fighting for Ukrainian science and discover a chatbot that can pop the conspiracy-thinking bubble.
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Academics say flying to meetings harms the climate — but they carry on Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-13
A survey at one of the biggest UK research universities finds that staff often end up flying to meetings despite a preference to avoid air travel.
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Traces of Our Past: The Social Representation of the Physical World Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Julian Jara-Ettinger, Adena Schachner
How do humans build and navigate their complex social world? Standard theoretical frameworks often attribute this success to a foundational capacity to analyze other people’s appearance and behavior to make inferences about their unobservable mental states. Here we argue that this picture is incomplete. Human behavior leaves traces in our physical environment that reveal our presence, our goals, and
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How Can Deep Neural Networks Inform Theory in Psychological Science? Current Directions in Psychological Science (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Sam Whitman McGrath, Jacob Russin, Ellie Pavlick, Roman Feiman
Over the last decade, deep neural networks (DNNs) have transformed the state of the art in artificial intelligence. In domains such as language production and reasoning, long considered uniquely human abilities, contemporary models have proven capable of strikingly human-like performance. However, in contrast to classical symbolic models, neural networks can be inscrutable even to their designers,
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Plagued by mosquitoes? Try some bite-blocking fabrics Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-13
Scientists create textiles with just the right weave and yarn to keep biting insects at bay.
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Weird signal that baffled seismologists traced to mega-landslide in Greenland Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-12
Study of a reverberation that rang around the world reveals a new type of geological event fuelled by global warming.
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Why do we crumble under pressure? Science has the answer Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-12
Study links this phenomenon to the brain region that controls movement.
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Brain region boosts avoidance of unpleasantness and pain — in mice Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-12
Discovery could help to identify ways to prevent relapse into opioid usage.
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Daily briefing: No, Rapa Nui people didn’t destroy their island Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-12
A controversial theory about Rapa Nui has been conclusively debunked. Plus, what Harris and Trump said about science in their debate and the reviewers churning out suspicious reviews for personal gain.
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This AI chatbot got conspiracy theorists to question their convictions Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-12
Large-language-model trial suggests facts and evidence really can change people’s minds.
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The brain aged more slowly in monkeys given a cheap diabetes drug Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-12
Daily dose of the common medication metformin preserved cognition and delayed decline of some tissues.
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Beliefs about self-control Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Jinyao Li, Marleen Gillebaart, Tim van Timmeren
It is increasingly recognized that successful self-control is not only determined by sheer willpower, but also by people's self-control. While early research has provided evidence that people's implicit theories can moderate their subsequent self-control performance, recent research considers the role of metacognition in self-control more comprehensively. In this review, we present an overview of recent
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Individual differences in adolescent self-control: The role of gene-environment interplay Current Opinion in Psychology (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Yayouk Eva Willems, Jian-Bin Li, Meike Bartels, Catrin Finkenauer
Self-control – the ability to alter unwanted impulses and behavior to bring them into agreement with goal-driven responses – is key during adolescence. It helps young people navigate through the myriad challenges they encounter while transitioning into adulthood. We review empirical milestones in our understanding of how individual differences in adolescent self-control exist and develop. We show how
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Red light, green light: flickering fluorophores reveal biochemistry in cells Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-12
A mysterious afterglow in a pandemic side project leads to a new method for observing proteins that interact in living cells.
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How we slashed our lab’s carbon footprint Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-12
Jane Kilcoyne and colleagues took action after calculating that their biotoxin chemistry lab produced 4000 kilograms of waste per year, none of which was recyled.
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First private spacewalk a success! What the SpaceX mission means for science Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-12
The Polaris Dawn crew are testing a new spacesuit design and running 36 experiments while orbiting Earth.
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Genetic links between ovarian ageing, cancer risk and de novo mutation rates Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Stasa Stankovic, Saleh Shekari, Qin Qin Huang, Eugene J. Gardner, Erna V. Ivarsdottir, Nick D. L. Owens, Nasim Mavaddat, Ajuna Azad, Gareth Hawkes, Katherine A. Kentistou, Robin N. Beaumont, Felix R. Day, Yajie Zhao, Hakon Jonsson, Thorunn Rafnar, Vinicius Tragante, Gardar Sveinbjornsson, Asmundur Oddsson, Unnur Styrkarsdottir, Julius Gudmundsson, Simon N. Stacey, Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, Kitale Kennedy
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Ultrahigh electromechanical response from competing ferroic orders Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Baichen Lin, Khuong Phuong Ong, Tiannan Yang, Qibin Zeng, Hui Kim Hui, Zhen Ye, Celine Sim, Zhihao Yen, Ping Yang, Yanxin Dou, Xiaolong Li, Xingyu Gao, Chee Kiang Ivan Tan, Zhi Shiuh Lim, Shengwei Zeng, Tiancheng Luo, Jinlong Xu, Xin Tong, Patrick Wen Feng Li, Minqin Ren, Kaiyang Zeng, Chengliang Sun, Seeram Ramakrishna, Mark B. H. Breese, Chris Boothroyd, Chengkuo Lee, David J. Singh, Yeng Ming Lam
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Brain-wide dynamics linking sensation to action during decision-making Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Andrei Khilkevich, Michael Lohse, Ryan Low, Ivana Orsolic, Tadej Bozic, Paige Windmill, Thomas D. Mrsic-Flogel
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Observing the two-dimensional Bose glass in an optical quasicrystal Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Jr-Chiun Yu, Shaurya Bhave, Lee Reeve, Bo Song, Ulrich Schneider
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The emerging view on the origin and early evolution of eukaryotic cells Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Julian Vosseberg, Jolien J. E. van Hooff, Stephan Köstlbacher, Kassiani Panagiotou, Daniel Tamarit, Thijs J. G. Ettema