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Sensors deployed at magnetically quiet rural sites looked for axions and ‘hidden photons’ — with no luck yet.

The ‘anthrobots’ were able to repair a scratch in a layer of neurons in the lab.

The power naps of the chinstrap penguin are even briefer and more frequent when it is tending eggs.

Researchers have extracted absorbent materials from the succulent Agave sisalana for making local, low-cost period products.

Draft resolution on a “loss and damage fund” has attracted more than $400 million, but climate vulnerable countries say more cash is needed.

Ring-like device blends nanoelectronics and folded RNA to track hormone levels without the need for invasive blood tests.

The whole genomes of 500,000 people in the UK Biobank will help researchers to probe our genetic code for links to disease.

Large language models such as that used by ChatGPT could soon become essential tools for diagnosing and treating patients. To protect people’s privacy and safety, medical professionals, not commercial interests, must drive their development and deployment.

At this week’s big climate summit and beyond, scientists are campaigning for microbes to be included in climate models and solutions.

In just a year, ChatGPT has permeated scientific research. Seven scientists reveal what they have learnt about how the chatbot should — and shouldn’t — be used.

We discuss the challenges of the upcoming climate-change conference, and a way to make stable plasma using hairy blocks.

Carbon fibre blocks could make it easier to create uniform high temperature plasma for manufacturing and research.

A plasma set-up consisting of a pair of carbon-fibre-tip-enhanced electrodes enables the generation of a uniform, ultra-high temperature and stable plasma (up to 8,000  K) at atmospheric pressure using a combination of vertically oriented long and short carbon fibres.

After loss of MSL2, a class of dosage-sensitive genes transitions from biallelic to monoallelic expression, whereby one allele remains active, retaining active histone modifications and transcription factor binding, and the other allele is silenced, exhibiting loss of promoter–enhancer contacts and the acquisition of DNA methylation.

An autonomous laboratory, the A-Lab, is presented that combines computations, literature data, machine learning and active learning, which discovered and synthesized 41 novel compounds from a set of 58 targets after 17 days of operation.