NATURE
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Spreading paws-itivity
Nature, Published online: 29 January 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00243-0 Marguerite Nicodeme works with Snoopy the dog to bring moments of cheerful relief…
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First aircraft to fly on Mars dies — but leaves a legacy of science
The Mars helicopter Ingenuity propels itself with two blades that are 1.2 metres in length.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter, the…
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How Einstein built on the past to make his breakthroughs
In 1905, German physicist Albert Einstein released four seminal physics papers, one of which won him the Nobel Prize in…
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high-profile effort will tackle paper mills
Paper mills often sell authorships to researchers on nonsense papers.Credit: Jes2ufoto/Alamy A high-profile group of funders, academic publishers and research…
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Two-dimensional heavy fermions in the van der Waals metal CeSiI
Mathur, N. D. et al. Magnetically mediated superconductivity in heavy fermion compounds. Nature 394, 39–43 (1998). Article ADS CAS Google…
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Google AI has better bedside manner than human doctors — and makes better diagnoses
A chatbot based on Google’s large language model can take medical histories from simulated patients and offer a range of…
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Urban youth most isolated in largest cities
Cook, C., Currier, L. & Glaeser, E. Nature Cities https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-023-00007-3 (2024). Article Google Scholar Athey, S., Ferguson, B., Gentzkow, M.…
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Boosting microbiome science worldwide could save millions of children’s lives
Less than 15% of the global population lives in Europe or North America. Yet more than 70% of published human…
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The handwriting of the greats, and solutions that make things worse: Books in brief
Breaking Through Katalin Karikó Crown (2023) Biochemist Katalin Karikó, daughter of a butcher, was born in 1950s Hungary in a…
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The research aiming to keep people healthier for longer
The molecular mechanisms that make exercise beneficial are increasingly understood.Credit: Don Emmert/AFP/Getty How We Age: The Science of Longevity Coleen…
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