Silence Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Paris Until 31 August 2025The Big Bang was spectacularly misnamed, having been “the quietest firework of all time”. Sound waves need matter to propagate through, so the explosion that created it can’t have...
Adam Levy: 00:02 Hello. I’m Adam Levy, and this is Mind Matters: Academia’s Mental Health Crisis, a podcast from Nature Careers. In this episode, we’re discussing burnout. Most all academics share something in common, passion for what they do. But...
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 29 January 2025 Sustainable engraftment of heart muscle cells (cardiomyocytes) can be achieved by implanting patches of engineered heart muscle onto the surface of the heart under immune suppression. Evidence from rhesus macaques and an individual with advanced...
Social-media platform Bluesky has more than 27 million users.Credit: Peter Kováč/AlamySeventy per cent of Nature readers who responded to an online poll are using the social-media platform Bluesky, which works a lot like X (formerly Twitter) and whose popularity has...
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...
