Attending a psychology conference this month, I was struck by an unsettling trend in social-science research. The abstract book revealed that nearly all of the 1,500 posters and talks related to some kind of confirmatory work — using statistical analyses...
David Posner (at lectern) introduces his plan to bring students from Mexico’s Vasco de Quiroga University to Cambridge, UK, for a research stay.Credit: Pedro Andres Garcia EscamillaBorn in the United States to a Mexican mum and a UK–US dad, I...
Artificial-intelligence models are able to translate an experimental method into code that runs a liquid-handling robot.Credit: GettySince July, researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico have been assessing how the artificial intelligence (AI) model GPT-4o can assist humans...
“In this photograph, I’m installing a chlorophyll fluorometer into a Scots pine tree (Pinus sylvestris) at a forest station in Hyytiälä, Finland, which is 200 kilometres north of the main campus at the University of Helsinki. I’m 20 metres above...
Jingex was feeling their age. Over the past 10 or 15 yahn cycles, they’d grown and grown and grown, until they were no longer spry and youthful: inclined more towards reclining and relaxing than striding out and exploring. It’s what...
Scott Imbrie still remembers the first time that physicians switched on the electrodes sitting on the surface of his brain. He felt a tingling, poking sensation in his hand, like “reaching into an evergreen bush”, he says. “It was like...
More private jets are taking to the skies now than there were four years ago.Credit: Joan Valls/Urbanandsport/NurPhoto via GettyA global analysis of private-jet use shows that the number of aircraft, trips and the distance planes covered have all soared over...
Patriat, P. & Achache, J. India–Eurasia collision chronology has implications for crustal shortening and driving mechanism of plates. Nature 311, 615–621 (1984).Article ADS Google Scholar Cande, S. C. & Patriat, P. The anticorrelated velocities of Africa and India in the...
One: 16 March 2074Donghua Advertising Company is deeply saddened to announce that, owing to company restructuring and resource optimization, Mr Chen Qi, a senior employee at our company, reached the end of his career on 15 March 2074.Mr Chen Qi...
It is common knowledge that the human gut is home to hordes of bacteria, most of which seem essential for good health. But there is another component of the gut microbiome that receives less attention: viruses.Wherever there are bacteria, viruses...
