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The mascot for King’s College London helped Andrés Gvirtz to teach a class, with a little help from generative artificial intelligence.

Soot and other remnants of fires record ancient warfare along the storied trade route.

In a game of twenty questions our contestants stretch their memories to remember some of the science stories that made headlines this year.

The synthetic fibre is an aerogel coated with polyurethane and is flexible, washable and wearable.

The risk of catching COVID-19 as calculated by a smartphone app scales with the probability of subsequently testing positive for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, showing that digital contact tracing is a useful tool for fighting future pandemics.

Brazil’s left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva grapples with deforestation, fossil-fuel pledges and commitments to Indigenous communities — all while having to work with a conservative Congress.

Coalition of researchers calls for more funding to study the boundary between conscious and unconscious systems.

A home away from home.

For those at the interface of funding organizations and the scientific community, platforms such as ChatGPT can tackle menial tasks and free up time for relationship-building work such as coaching and mentoring.

Biostatistician Penny Robinson explains why conferences and networking events present challenges for neurodiverse scientists and suggests some simple fixes.

Expectations were high after Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the presidency. But some scientists are frustrated at the slow pace of change.

A system called Coscientist scours the Internet for instructions, then designs and executes experiments to synthesize molecules.

A whistle-stop tour under the hood of Chat GPT in which we ask whether we should be calling LLMs intelligent in the first place

Games, seasonal science songs, and Nature’s 10.

An analysis of more than 500 sites distributed worldwide finds that declines in the abundance of terrestrial insects are attributable mainly to decreases in species that were formerly abundant, rather than being the result of losses of rare species.

Mitochondria have a pivotal role in the transport of dietary lipids in enterocytes, a finding that might have relevance to understanding the aberrant gastrointestinal function in patients with mitochondrial disorders.