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Cover runners-up of 2024
It is time to bring our favorite cover suggestions from 2024 to light. Our yearly tradition of highlighting our favorite author-suggested covers that were not chosen as Nature Computational Science covers continues! Here are our favorite images from 2024. Cover submitted for the paper by Feihu Xu and colleagues. Credit: Feihu Xu The first image…
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Bridging art and science
Ahna Skop is a geneticist and artist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA. Ahna’s lab studies the assembly and function of mammalian midbody and midbody remnant, which are assembled at the end of mitosis. Ahna also leans into her passion for scientific art to engage the public. We were fascinated to hear Ahna’s thoughts on…
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Crafting visual worlds: scientist-artist Nicolas Decat’s vision for science storytelling
Nicolas Decat is a PhD student in neuroscience at the Paris Brain Institute. By day, he investigates what goes through people’s minds as they drift off to sleep. When they’re sleeping, he works on ways to turn science into visual stories that inspire. Credit: Nicolas Decat What does your research focus on? I am studying…
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India’s science workforce is under-used, survey finds
There are gaps in the best use of skilled labour across multiple scientific disciplines. Credit: Subhra Priyadarshini India’s science and technology (S&T) workforce is underutilized, a recent survey reveals. It exposes substantial gaps in the best use of skilled labour across multiple scientific disciplines and domains. This underutilization stems from a mismatch between skill supply…
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Can novelty scores on papers shift the power dynamics in scientific publishing?
Novelty scores can help journals to predict whether a manuscript will be impactful.Credit: PRUDENCIOALVAREZ/iStock via Getty A publication platform called DeSci Publish aims to predict the impact of manuscripts by giving them a ‘novelty score’. The developers say that this score could assist journal editors in deciding which studies to publish, and could be an…
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Inside an Argentinian nuclear reactor, science and politics collide
Ana Clarisa López Bularte runs the facility’s radiopharmacy division, at which a team produce compounds, such as lutetium-177 and technetium-99m, used in radiation therapy and medical imaging. After graduating from Argentina’s National University of Quilmes in Bernal, only 30 kilometres from Ezeiza, López Bularte joined the CNEA as a research scientist in 2008 before specializing…
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On the path toward brain-scale simulations
Today’s high-performance computing systems are nearing an ability to simulate the human brain at scale. This presents a new challenge: going forward, will the bigger challenge be the brain’s size or its complexity? This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution Access options Access through your institution Change institution Buy or subscribe…
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Simulation and assimilation of the digital human brain
Abstract Here we present the Digital Brain (DB)—a platform for simulating spiking neuronal networks at the large neuron scale of the human brain on the basis of personalized magnetic resonance imaging data and biological constraints. The DB aims to reproduce both the resting state and certain aspects of the action of the human brain. An…
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Spatial modeling algorithms for reactions and transport in biological cells
Abstract Biological cells rely on precise spatiotemporal coordination of biochemical reactions to control their functions. Such cell signaling networks have been a common focus for mathematical models, but they remain challenging to simulate, particularly in realistic cell geometries. Here we present Spatial Modeling Algorithms for Reactions and Transport (SMART), a software package that takes in…
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How to find your place in science through an industry postdoc
Nature’s 2023 survey of postdoctoral researchers identified a notable gap between industry and academia. Although industry postdocs remain in the minority — only 7% of the 3,838 respondents from around the world reported working in an industrial setting — they reported greater satisfaction and tended to be better compensated. Nearly one-quarter of postdocs in industry…