Chinese firm DeepSeek debuted a version of its large language model last year.Credit: Koshiro K/AlamyA Chinese-built large language model called DeepSeek-R1 is thrilling scientists as an affordable and open rival to ‘reasoning’ models such as OpenAI’s o1.These models generate responses...
Credit: Cyril Frésillon/CNRS PhotothèqueMartin Karplus was a theoretical chemist who set out to explore the fundamentals of his subject, but always with an eye to the broadest possible applications in the real world. He seized the potential of computers to...
Snake venom can cause paralysis, tissue damage and death.Credit: Ingo Schulz/imageBROKER via GettyProteins designed using artificial intelligence (AI) can block the lethal effects of toxins delivered in the venom of cobras, adders and other deadly snakes.The AI-designed proteins could form...
Authors who had a paper retracted said their data errors were mostly caused by inattention or technical problems.Credit: Jacob Wackerhausen/GettyMost researchers whose papers are retracted owing to an honest mistake find the ordeal stressful, according to a survey of almost...
People in New Delhi, India, wait in line for water in June 2024 during a heat wave.Credit: Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times via GettyIt’s official: Earth’s average temperature climbed more than 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels for the first time in...
ATAC-seq data processingPseudobulkTo determine the chromatin accessibility score for each region, we used the scATAC-seq count table and cell annotation table from each respective study. To aggregate single cells into ‘pseudobulk cell types’, we used the Louvain clustering results from...
In 2023, more than 450 scientists who had begun publishing research only in the previous eight years were among the ranks of most-cited researchers. Credit: GettyThe number of ‘precocious’ scientists — those who become top-cited authors early in their careers...
Hugonnet, R. et al. Accelerated global glacier mass loss in the early twenty-first century. Nature 592, 726–731 (2021).Article ADS PubMed CAS Google Scholar Milner, A. M. et al. Glacier shrinkage driving global changes in downstream systems. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci....
Walls. Thick, dark, stone walls. Ben couldn’t recall how long he’d been here. There was nothing to help him keep track of time. He ran his hands over the walls again. No chinks, no loose stones, no cracks. No way...
Download the 27 December long read podcastMarc Abrahams created the Ig Nobel prizes in 1991, after years of collecting examples of weird research that he included in the Journal of Irreproducible Results. The aim of these satirical awards is to...
