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The US president calls the widely used painkiller, also known as paracetamol, ‘a very big factor’ in autism, but scientists say that strong evidence is lacking.

Atomic ‘conveyor belt’ boosts power of quantum computer

Array system could help to scale up technology that uses atoms to create qubits.

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Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump says his administration has “found an answer to autism”.

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DeepSeek-R1 incentivizes reasoning in LLMs through reinforcement learning

A new artificial intelligence model, DeepSeek-R1, is introduced, demonstrating that the reasoning abilities of large language models can be incentivized through pure reinforcement learning, removing the need for human-annotated demonstrations.

Daya Guo
Dejian Yang
Zhen Zhang
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Daily briefing: Device senses silent speech without an invasive brain implant

A wearable device senses electrical signals in the muscles used to formulate speech to detect internally articulated words. Plus, this year’s Ig Nobel prizewinners and what we can learn from octopuses.

Flora Graham
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The Moon is rusting — thanks to ‘wind’ blown all the way from Earth

Lunar minerals generate the rust mineral hematite when bombarded with high-energy oxygen particles, experiments show.

Alexandra Witze

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Trump links autism and Tylenol: is there any truth to it?
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Reviving the past and designing the future: Books in brief
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  Modelling suggests that most Caribbean coral reefs will erode by the year 2100 as sea-level rise outpaces reef growth and limits potential reef restoration.
  
  Nicola K. Browne
  
  News & Views17 Sept 2025
- A surprising way to make heat in an unexpected part of fat cells
  
  Organelles called peroxisomes have been found to have a role in heat generation in fat tissue, and use a mechanism independent of the known heat-producing protein UCP1. The process involves the synthesis and degradation of monomethyl branched-chain fatty acids, driven by the lipid-synthesizing enzyme FASN and the peroxisomal enzyme ACOX2.
  
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- A photonic chip enables ultrabroadband wireless communication
  
  Future wireless networks should exploit the full range of telecommunications frequencies. A photonic chip that can reconfigure a broad range of frequencies enables dynamic, full-spectrum management of next-generation communications systems.
  
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- People are more likely to cheat when they delegate tasks to AI
  
  Artificial intelligence is moving from being a mere tool to an active partner in decision-making, but when we offload misconduct to machines, who bears the blame?
  
  Shoko Suzuki
  
  News & Views17 Sept 2025
- AI can learn to show its workings through trial and error
  
  Large language models (LLMs) are more accurate when they output intermediate steps. A strategy called reinforcement can teach them to do this without being told.
  
  Daphne Ippolito
  Yiming Zhang
  
  News & Views17 Sept 2025
- Bespoke 3D printing adapted to features mapped using computer vision
  
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- Bioelectronic implants built from rolled-up stretchy circuits
  
  Hyunjin Lee
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- Earth’s atmosphere took two billion years to become fully oxygenated
  
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- Years of hits to the head prime the brain for decline
  
  Adam Bachstetter
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Decoding the redox behaviour of copper in Ullmann-type coupling reactions

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Global warming amplifies wildfire health burden and reshapes inequality

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Wildfire smoke exposure and mortality burden in the US under climate change

Minghao Qiu
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Basal cell of origin resolves neuroendocrine–tuft lineage plasticity in cancer

Basal cells, rather than neuroendocrine cells, have been identified as the probable origin of small cell lung cancer and other neuroendocrine–tuft cancers, explaining neuroendocrine–tuft heterogeneity and offering new perspectives for targeting lineage plasticity.

Abbie S. Ireland
Daniel A. Xie
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A neuronal architecture underlying autonomic dysreflexia

The neuronal architecture that develops after spinal cord injury and causes autonomic dysreflexia is uncovered.

Jan Elaine Soriano
Remi Hudelle
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Trump links autism and Tylenol: is there any truth to it?

Atomic ‘conveyor belt’ boosts power of quantum computer

Gestational diabetes linked to autism in study: what scientists say

DeepSeek-R1 incentivizes reasoning in LLMs through reinforcement learning

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The Moon is rusting — thanks to ‘wind’ blown all the way from Earth

What drove the rise of civilizations? A decades-long quest points to warfare

Gestational diabetes linked to autism in study: what scientists say

Trump links autism and Tylenol: is there any truth to it?

Hotly anticipated US vaccine meeting ends with confusion — and a few decisions

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Harvard vs Trump: millions in grant money begin trickling back to scientists

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Caribbean coral reefs are threatened by rising seas

A surprising way to make heat in an unexpected part of fat cells

A photonic chip enables ultrabroadband wireless communication

People are more likely to cheat when they delegate tasks to AI

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