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This AI ‘mechanic’ can peer inside the black box of other neural networks
Some AI models behave like mechanics — fixing issues in other models that they neither designed nor fully understand. Credit:…
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PhDs worldwide are having a shake up — why now?
Industrial PhD programmes are increasingly being utilized in fields such as public engineering.Credit: Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Yifan Wang didn’t realize that…
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ESC (DC)2 | Nature
Fifteen miles south of Egilsstaðir, Sindri pulls over, his grin suddenly a happy thing compared with the bleak landscape outside…
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Mysterious anthrax outbreak kills hippos in Africa — raising concerns for human spread
Hippos in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been affected by an anthrax outbreak over…
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Record-breaking retraction: scholarly publisher pulls 1,400 conference papers on one day
Credit: Pawel Kacperek/Getty One of the world’s top professional societies for scientists and engineers has retracted 1,417 conference papers in…
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Tandem repeat variation shapes immune cell type-specific gene expression
Tanudisastro, H. A., Deveson, I. W., Dashnow, H. & MacArthur, D. G. Sequencing and characterizing short tandem repeats in the…
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The Selfish Gene, 50 years on — it’s time for an update
I first read The Selfish Gene in the 1980s, as a graduate student in neurobiology and animal behaviour. I admired…
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Rebody | Nature
Day 34 Tell your loved one where you are. I’m in an Obelisk Corporation jump ship, strapped into a drop…
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Butterfly wing patterns make motion hard to read
Nature, Published online: 20 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03062-7 Movement can expose camouflaged prey, yet whether colour patterns help moving prey to…
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PhD students who write dissertation with AI less likely to stay in academia
PhD students are increasingly using AI to help write their dissertations.Credit: Ginaellen/Getty Roughly 30% of PhD dissertations in science, technology,…
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