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Nature Podcast |
How to 3D print fully formed robots
Printing multi-material objects in a single run, and the effectiveness of lifestyle interventions for preventing type 2 diabetes.
- Benjamin Thompson
- & Shamini Bundell
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Career Column |
Why postdoctoral training needs a stronger focus on innovation
Innovation straddles policy, change management, budgeting, negotiating and influencing skills. Researchers need all these and more, says David Bogle.
- David Bogle
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Spotlight |
How Paris is becoming a happy home for health-technology start-up companies
A long-term investment plan is helping the French capital to attract talent.
- Nic Fleming
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News Feature |
The rise of brain-reading technology: what you need to know
As implanted devices and commercial headsets advance, what will the real-world impacts be?
- Liam Drew
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Career Feature |
How five researchers fared after their ‘great resignation’ from academia
A career leap into the unknown can be unsettling, but you can take steps to ease the transition.
- Virginia Gewin
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News |
‘ChatGPT detector’ catches AI-generated papers with unprecedented accuracy
Tool based on machine learning uses features of writing style to distinguish between human and AI authors.
- McKenzie Prillaman
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Nature Podcast |
Nature's Take: How will ChatGPT and generative AI transform research?
Nature staff take on the big topics that matter in science.
- Nick Petrić Howe
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- & Yann Sweeney
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Career Q&A |
My path to heading a biotech company
Shadi Farhangrazi describes how she accidentally became a chief executive.
- Raveena Bhambra
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Comment |
Garbage in, garbage out: mitigating risks and maximizing benefits of AI in research
Artificial-intelligence tools are transforming data-driven science — better ethical standards and more robust data curation are needed to fuel the boom and prevent a bust.
- Brooks Hanson
- , Shelley Stall
- & Ge Peng
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Research Briefing |
Large-scale nanowire camera with a single-photon sensitivity
Superconducting detectors are a leading technology for the detection of single photons, but have been limited in the number of pixels that they can offer. A 400,000-pixel superconducting nanowire single-photon detector camera provides an improvement by a factor of 400 compared with the current state of the art.
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News |
AI ‘breakthrough’: neural net has human-like ability to generalize language
A neural-network-based artificial intelligence outperforms ChatGPT at quickly folding new words into its lexicon, a key aspect of human intelligence.
- Max Kozlov
- & Celeste Biever
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Comment |
Living guidelines for generative AI — why scientists must oversee its use
Establish an independent scientific body to test and certify generative artificial intelligence, before the technology damages science and public trust.
- Claudi L. Bockting
- , Eva A. M. van Dis
- & Johan Bollen
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Obituary |
C. R. Rao, statistician who transformed data analytics (1920–2023)
Pioneer of powerful tools for sifting data and optimizing device designs.
- Shyamal D. Peddada
- & Ravindra Khattree
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Career Feature |
Postdoc career optimism rebounds after COVID in global Nature survey
Postdoctoral researchers still feel as though they are academia’s drudge labourers, but have more confidence about job prospects in a post-pandemic world.
- Linda Nordling
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News |
Gene therapies for rare diseases are under threat. Scientists hope to save them
As industry steps aside, scientists seek innovative ways to make sure expensive treatments can reach people who need them.
- Heidi Ledford
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Career Column |
How ‘retro’ meetings can enhance collaboration
Allowing team members time to reflect, celebrate successes and learn from mistakes is a tried-and-tested way to foster continuous improvement.
- Akshay Swaminathan
- & Lathan Liou
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News & Views |
How purposeless physics underlies purposeful life
Evolution by natural selection peerlessly describes how life’s complexity develops — but can it be explained in terms of physics? A new approach suggests it can.
- George F. R. Ellis
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Career Guide |
Boomerang academics: why we left academia for industry, but then came back
A move from one sector to another isn’t a one-way street. Researchers who have pivoted between the two explain why.
- Christine Ro
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Research Briefing |
Scandium-45 nuclear-clock candidate driven by X-ray lasers
Precise timekeeping is key to many technologies, motivating the search for more-stable reference oscillators for use as clocks. The resonant X-ray excitation of a long-lived nuclear state in scandium-45 makes it a potential reference oscillator for a nuclear clock that could surpass atomic clocks in stability and resilience against external perturbations.
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News Feature |
AI and science: what 1,600 researchers think
A Nature survey finds that scientists are concerned, as well as excited, by the increasing use of artificial-intelligence tools in research.
- Richard Van Noorden
- & Jeffrey M. Perkel
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Nature Podcast |
This isn’t the Nature Podcast — how deepfakes are distorting reality
The rise of AI-generated fakes, evidence of the earliest-known wooden structure, and how NASA’s OSIRIS-REx brought asteroid samples back to Earth.
- Nick Petrić Howe
- & Benjamin Thompson
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News Feature |
Science and the new age of AI
A Nature special on how AI is transforming the scientific enterprise.
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News Feature |
How to stop AI deepfakes from sinking society — and science
Deceptive videos and images created using generative AI could sway elections, crash stock markets and ruin reputations. Researchers are developing methods to limit their harm.
- Nicola Jones
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Comment |
‘Benevolent’ patent extensions could raise billions for R&D in poorer countries
Research into vaccines, crop seeds and other innovations for low- or middle-income nations could be rewarded by offering longer patent coverage for profitable, non-essential inventions.
- Christopher B. Barrett
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News |
Is depression lifting? AI that interprets brain waves has answers
A pattern of brain activity linked with recovery from severe depression could be used to improve therapies such as deep-brain stimulation
- Max Kozlov
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Editorial |
Why the pandemic treaty risks becoming COVID-19 groundhog day
Talks are stalling, but everyone benefits when the fruits of vaccine and drugs research are shared equitably.
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Career Feature |
Promotion pathways: how scientists can chart their industry career trajectory
Confused about promotion opportunities after moving to industry? Here are some pointers.
- Sandeep Ravindran
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News |
World’s most powerful X-ray laser will ‘film’ chemical reactions in unprecedented detail
Upgraded laser in California will produce one million X-ray pulses per second to study ultrafast processes at the atomic level.
- Katherine Bourzac
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Outlook |
A test of artificial intelligence
As debate rages over the abilities of modern AI systems, scientists are still struggling to effectively assess machine intelligence.
- Michael Eisenstein
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Nature Podcast |
Our ancestors lost nearly 99% of their population, 900,000 years ago
A roundup of stories from the Nature Briefing, including how human ancestors came close to extinction, historic pollution in Antarctica, and the AI that predicts smell from a compound's structure.
- Benjamin Thompson
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- & Shamini Bundell
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Book Review |
Dust: how the pursuit of power and profit has turned the world to powder
From atmospheric nuclear testing to the US Dust Bowl, human activities have left a toxic legacy of particulate pollution — and the unseen fallout continues to this day.
- Alexandra Witze
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News |
How would room-temperature superconductors change science?
The prized materials could be transformative for research — but only if they have other essential qualities.
- Davide Castelvecchi
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Career Q&A |
Biotechnologist’s long-life bananas unite business and social solutions
George William Byarugaba Bazirake brings academic values to his company.
- Christopher Bendana
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Research Highlight |
Which graduate students gain patents? Gender holds an answer
PhD students with supervisors who are prolific inventors have an edge, as do male students.
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Nature Video |
AI finally beats humans at a real-life sport — drone racing
The new system combines simulation with onboard sensing and computation.
- Dan Fox
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Nature Podcast |
Physicists finally observe strange isotope Oxygen 28 – raising fundamental questions
The long-sought finding challenges scientists' understanding of the strong nuclear force, and the AI that can beat human champions at drone racing.
- Dan Fox
- & Nick Petrić Howe
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Correspondence |
Neurotechnology: we need new laws, not new rights
- Sjors Ligthart
- , Christoph Bublitz
- & Susie Alegre
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Nature Video |
Mind-reading computers turn brain activity into speech
Algorithms trained to associate sounds with neural activity can give people back their voice
- Shamini Bundell
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Career Feature |
‘Gagged and blindsided’: how an allegation of research misconduct affected our lab
Bioengineer Ram Sasisekharan describes the impact of a four-year investigation by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which ultimately cleared him.
- Anne Gulland
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Spotlight |
Why scientists are delving into the virtual world
Virtual-reality software and headsets are increasingly being used by researchers to form deeper collaborations or work remotely.
- Rachael Pells
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News |
If AI becomes conscious: here’s how researchers will know
A checklist derived from six neuroscience-based theories of consciousness could aid in the assessment.
- Mariana Lenharo
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Nature Podcast |
Brain-reading implants turn thoughts into speech
Two studies demonstrate how brain-computer interfaces could help people to communicate, and working out how hot it can get before tropical leaves start to die.
- Benjamin Thompson
- & Nick Petrić Howe
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Correspondence |
Digital tech: some way to go for IPCC-style governance
- Sean T. Norton
- & Jacob N. Shapiro
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Career Q&A |
Leveraging my training in space medicine for technological innovation
Shawna Pandya explores entrepreneurial niches to bring virtual-reality medicine to space exploration.
- Lesley Evans Ogden
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Career Feature |
How to make the leap into industry after a PhD
Landing that first job in industry requires planning, homework and networking — and a bit of soul-searching.
- Spoorthy Raman