News, Seven Days, News Q&A and News Explainer in 2023

Putting the brain into sleep mode helps to maximize food intake during bountiful Arctic summers.

Improvements in the performance of large language models such as ChatGPT are more predictable than they seem.

Gender bias in paper citations is less common among younger scientists, but it still plays a part in making women’s research less visible.

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

Researchers call for more funding to study the boundary between conscious and unconscious systems.

A study shows that US children who received mRNA COVID-19 vaccines have some protection against developing long-lasting symptoms of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

Scientists are devising ways to edit the genomes of immune cells without having to extract them from the people being treated.

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

Climate change and human activities have led to more frequent and intense forest blazes over the past two decades.

Some doctors say a troublingly high number of cancer-free people have tested positive on the tests sold by a Japanese start-up.

Humans are probably responsible for the extinction of 12% of bird species, many of which were never documented.

Sage Policy Profiles scans a database of 10 million documents to show researchers where their papers have been cited.

Some researchers find AI chatbots helpful for writing, coding and gathering information. Others are choosing to avoid the craze.

New results hint at how to perfect ‘mucosal’ vaccines, which are delivered up the nose or down the throat.

Advanced AI tools, Moon missions and ultrafast supercomputers are among the developments set to shape research in the coming year.

Researchers at the National Ignition Facility are consistently creating reactions that make more energy than they consume.

Lund University in Sweden reorganizes in the face of years of accusations against two professors.

Sociologist Mathew Creighton discusses how events in Europe in the past month are fed by people’s covert prejudices.

Vivian Cheung sued after her funding was not renewed, alleging discrimination, but the institute said her science no longer met its expectations.

Bedrock extracted from beneath the island’s frozen covering offers hints of the ice sheet’s past and future.