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

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

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.

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.

We provide a modified strategy for the on-surface synthesis of cyclocarbons with 10 or 14 carbon atoms that provides a route for characterizing annular carbon allotropes.

FOXP3 uses the forkhead domain to form a higher-order multimer after binding to T_nG repeat microsatellites.

Whole-genome alignment of 239 primate species reveals noncoding regulatory elements that are under selective constraint in primates but not in other placental mammals, that are enriched for variants that affect human gene expression and complex traits in diseases.

Observations of six transiting planets around the bright nearby star HD 110067 show that they follow a chain of resonant orbits, with three of the planets inferring the presence of large hydrogen-dominated atmospheres.