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    The very first beat: how a heart starts to pulse

    Hours of footage of zebrafish embryos let researchers capture and study this key moment in development.

    nature video | 27 Sep 2023
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    How to stop AI deepfakes from sinking society — and science

    Deceptive videos and images created using generative AI could sway elections, crash stock markets and ruin reputations. Researchers are developing methods to limit their harm.

    news feature | 27 Sep 2023
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    Science and the new age of AI

    A Nature special on how AI is transforming the scientific enterprise.

    news feature | 27 Sep 2023
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    This isn’t the Nature Podcast — how deepfakes are distorting reality

    The rise of AI-generated fakes, evidence of the earliest-known wooden structure, and how NASA’s OSIRIS-REx brought asteroid samples back to Earth.

    nature podcast | 27 Sep 2023

• • Astronomers are worried by a satellite brighter than most stars

    NATURE PODCAST | 04 OCT 2023

  • Pioneers of mRNA COVID vaccines win medicine Nobel

    NEWS | 02 OCT 2023

  • Audio long read: These animals are racing towards extinction. A new home might be their last chance

    NATURE PODCAST | 29 SEP 2023

  • The microbes lurking in saliva and more — September’s best science images

    NEWS | 29 SEP 2023