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Are your organs ageing well? The blood holds clues

One organ in a person’s body can age faster than the rest — with implications for health and mortality.

Brain implants help people to recover after severe head injury

Electrodes placed inside the brains of five people with traumatic injuries improved their performance in attention and memory tests.

Miryam Naddaf
News05 Dec 2023
Is AI leading to a reproducibility crisis in science?

Scientists worry that ill-informed use of artificial intelligence is driving a deluge of unreliable or useless research.

Philip Ball
News Feature05 Dec 2023
Remote collaboration fuses fewer breakthrough ideas

Analysis of research articles and patent applications shows that members of teams that collaborate remotely are less likely to make breakthrough discoveries than members of on-site teams.

Yiling Lin
Carl Benedikt Frey
Lingfei Wu
Article29 Nov 2023
Daily briefing: The first 1,000-qubit quantum chip

After unveiling a quantum computer with 1,121 qubits, IBM will now focus on smaller, more error-resistant systems. Plus, male mosquitoes once sucked blood and ‘wobbly spacetime’ could reconcile physics’ most incompatible theories.

Katrina Krämer
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Humanity’s oldest art is flaking away. Can scientists save it?

Ancient humans painted scenes in Indonesian caves more than 45,000 years ago, but their art is disappearing rapidly. Researchers are trying to discover what’s causing the damage and how to stop it — before the murals are gone forever.

Dyani Lewis

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Frugal innovation: why low cost doesn’t have to mean low impact

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Catastrophic change looms as Earth nears climate ‘tipping points’, report says
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Self-copying RNA vaccine wins first full approval: what’s next?
Elie Dolgin
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India calls out inequalities at COP28 climate summit
Gayathri Vaidyanathan
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Max Kozlov
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Climate researchers need support to become scientist-communicators
Daniel Swain
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- Harmful tumour–kidney interactions identified
  
  Fatal renal dysfunction is often associated with tumour development. Fly and mouse data reveal evolutionarily conserved mechanisms that link tumours to renal failure and offer potential for future therapeutic approaches.
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Logical quantum processor based on reconfigurable atom arrays

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Bipolar outflows out to 10 kpc for massive galaxies at redshift z ≈ 1

An ultra-deep MUSE image of the mean Mg II emission for a sample of galaxies at redshift z ≈ 1 suggests the presence of bipolar outflows on scales of 10 kpc or more.

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N¹-methylpseudouridylation of mRNA causes +1 ribosomal frameshifting

A study demonstrates that nucleotide modifications in mRNA-based therapeutics can lead to +1 ribosomal frameshifting during translation, yielding products that can trigger immune responses.

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A novel antidiuretic hormone governs tumour-induced renal dysfunction

Experiments using conserved tumour models show that the G-protein-coupled receptor TkR99D in Drosophila Malphigian tubular stellate cells and NK3R in mouse renal tubules link malignant tumours to defective excretory functions.

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Biological carbon pump estimate based on multidecadal hydrographic data

By using several decades of hydrographic data and an inverse biogeochemical model that implicitly accounts for all known export pathways, a top-down estimate of the strength of the biological carbon pump is calculated.

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Are your organs ageing well? The blood holds clues

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Is AI leading to a reproducibility crisis in science?

Remote collaboration fuses fewer breakthrough ideas

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Humanity’s oldest art is flaking away. Can scientists save it?

Frugal innovation: why low cost doesn’t have to mean low impact

Catastrophic change looms as Earth nears climate ‘tipping points’, report says

Self-copying RNA vaccine wins first full approval: what’s next?

India calls out inequalities at COP28 climate summit

Are your organs ageing well? The blood holds clues

Climate researchers need support to become scientist-communicators

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Probing single electron spins with an atomic force microscope for quantum applications

Harmful tumour–kidney interactions identified

An expanded genomic database for identifying disease-related variants

Self-assembling structures close the gap to trap light

From the archive: Uri Geller’s tricks, and willows to the rescue

How hyenas decide whether to form a lion-fighting mob

The genetic diversity of Bantu-speaking populations helped to shape African history

Carbon rings push limits of chemical theories

Tackling extreme poverty around the world need not impede climate action

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Logical quantum processor based on reconfigurable atom arrays

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