Research laboratories are weighing up the costs and benefits of paying for artificial-intelligence tools.Credit: J Studios/GettyJames Zou has spent “well over US$100,000” on artificial intelligence in the past year. “These models are very useful for researchers, for coding, for analysis,...
Chantle Edillor 00:08I believe that the creativity, you know, the uniqueness of the perspectives that I had, you know, it allowed me to identify unique opportunities in subjects that no one was thinking about in that way.David Payne 00:24This is...
Ethics statementThroughout this study, we took care to follow relevant ethical standards. The use of sock puppet accounts is an established research technique for investigating personalization and bias on internet platforms12,24,45, provided it is strictly for noncommercial, public-interest purposes and...
Gynaecological disorders such as endometriosis could be studied using endometrium organoids.Credit: fizkes/ShutterstockResearchers have developed organoids that can regenerate like the endometrium, the lining of the uterus that sheds and re-forms during the menstrual cycle. The team used the miniature 3D...
Radiation levels in roughly 2% of the Fukushima region, about 300 square kilometres, are unsafe for people.Credit: Franck Robichon/EPA/ShutterstockFifteen years after Japan’s worst nuclear-power accident, construction is under way in Fukushima for a research institute that will focus on robotics,...
This dawn shot of biologist Audun Rikardsen following trawlers in a Norwegian fjord was last year’s overall winner.Credit: Emma VogelEntries are now open for Nature’s 2026 #ScientistAtWork photo competition. Capture a moment in your working day on camera for the...
The holographic minaret of Al-Shafi’i drilled the Adhan straight into the mastoid bone behind my ear. A neural vibration, not a sound. Maghrib. Above the coral houses of Al-Balad, the Ministry’s drones buzzed back to their hives, glutted on our...
Stephan Schlamminger (left) and colleague Vincent Lee with the equipment used to measure big G.Credit: R. Eskalis/NISTThe value of the constant that describes the gravitational pull between objects, Big G, continues to baffle scientists. A decade-long replication experiment1 that involved...
David Hertzog and Katherine High were among the winners of this year’s Breakthrough prize.Credit: Dennis R. Wise & Colin LentonResearchers dedicated to a decades-long quest to measure the magnetic properties of the subatomic muon particle have won one of this...
In laboratories and hospitals around the world, a new generation of cancer researchers is working on the treatments and technologies of tomorrow. Some have turned their focus to improving imaging techniques for diagnostics; others are developing minimally invasive tests for...
