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Reproducibility trial: 246 biologists get different results from same data sets
Scientists who ran separate analyses on a single data set about the effect of grass cover on Eucalyptus seedlings arrived at vastly different answers.Credit: Laurence Dutton/Getty In a massive exercise to examine reproducibility, more than 200 biologists analysed the same sets of ecological data — and got widely divergent results. The first sweeping study1 of…
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Reproducibility trial: 246 biologists get different results from same data sets
Scientists who ran separate analyses on a single data set about the effect of grass cover on Eucalyptus seedlings arrived at vastly different answers.Credit: Laurence Dutton/Getty In a massive exercise to examine reproducibility, more than 200 biologists analysed the same sets of ecological data — and got widely divergent results. The first sweeping study1 of…
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This is the largest map of the human brain ever made
Insights into thousands of types of brain cell could improve understanding of diseases and cognition.Credit: Dennis Kunkel Microscopy/Science Photo Library Researchers have created the largest atlas of human brain cells so far, revealing more than 3,000 cell types — many of which are new to science. The work, published in a package of 21 papers…
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This is the largest map of the human brain ever made
Insights into thousands of types of brain cell could improve understanding of diseases and cognition.Credit: Dennis Kunkel Microscopy/Science Photo Library Researchers have created the largest atlas of human brain cells so far, revealing more than 3,000 cell types — many of which are new to science. The work, published in a package of 21 papers…
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Achieving UN climate goals needs purposeful, persistent action from science
A Canadair firefighting plane sprays water during a fire in Dervenochoria, northwest of Athens, in July.Credit: Spyros Bakalis/AFP via Getty When it comes to the alarmingly slow progress that the world is making towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) — United Nations targets set in 2015 to end poverty, achieve equality and protect the environment…
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Achieving UN climate goals needs purposeful, persistent action from science
A Canadair firefighting plane sprays water during a fire in Dervenochoria, northwest of Athens, in July.Credit: Spyros Bakalis/AFP via Getty When it comes to the alarmingly slow progress that the world is making towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) — United Nations targets set in 2015 to end poverty, achieve equality and protect the environment…
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AI and science: what 1,600 researchers think
Illustration by Acapulco Studio Artificial-intelligence (AI) tools are becoming increasingly common in science, and many scientists anticipate that they will soon be central to the practice of research, suggests a Nature survey of more than 1,600 researchers around the world. Science and the new age of AI: a Nature special When respondents were asked how…
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AI and science: what 1,600 researchers think
Illustration by Acapulco Studio Artificial-intelligence (AI) tools are becoming increasingly common in science, and many scientists anticipate that they will soon be central to the practice of research, suggests a Nature survey of more than 1,600 researchers around the world. Science and the new age of AI: a Nature special When respondents were asked how…