Abstract To automate the discovery of new scientific and engineering principles, artificial intelligence must distill explicit rules from experimental data. This has proven difficult because existing methods typically search through the enormous space of possible functions. Here we introduce deep distilling, a machine learning method that does not perform searches but instead learns from data…

The Research Cross-Journal Editorial Team supports the Nature-branded research journals, with a focus on handling primary research manuscripts. Head of Team | Prateek Dongare, PhD, Springer Nature, Berlin, Germany,Prateek has a background in chemistry & material science, specializing in catalysis and solar energy research. He joined Communications Chemistry in 2018 as an Associate Editor and…

Today’s roundup of science articles at phys.org includes an early look at a potentially revolutionary discovery in Nature of a new third form of magnetism — which the authors are calling altermagnetism — that could have profound implications for the future of science and technology. Now you may be thinking at this point, “a third form of magnetism?  I didn’t…

Abstract Extracting structured knowledge from scientific text remains a challenging task for machine learning models. Here, we present a simple approach to joint named entity recognition and relation extraction and demonstrate how pretrained large language models (GPT-3, Llama-2) can be fine-tuned to extract useful records of complex scientific knowledge. We test three representative tasks in…

Abstract Chlormequat chloride is a plant growth regulator whose use on grain crops is on the rise in North America. Toxicological studies suggest that exposure to chlormequat can reduce fertility and harm the developing fetus at doses lower than those used by regulatory agencies to set allowable daily intake levels. Here we report, the presence…

The global survey indicated that people have moderately high levels of trust in scientists overall.Credit: Michael Candelori/Pacific Press Via Zuma Wire/Shutterstock People around the world have high levels of trust in scientists, and most want researchers to get more involved in policymaking, finds a global survey with more than 70,000 participants. But trust levels are…

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The hybrid beef–rice is pink because the cell-culture medium contains phenol red, an acidity monitor.Credit: Yonsei University Rice has been used as a scaffold to grow beef muscle and fat cells, resulting in an edible, “nutty” rice–beef combo that can be prepared in the same way as normal rice. The study, published today in Matter1,…