Human genome editing could markedly reduce the likelihood of Alzheimer’s disease. The brain scan on the left is of someone with Alzheimer’s disease; the one on the right is of a ‘typical’ brain.Credit: Centre Jean Perrin, ISM/Science Photo Library Scientists know about tens of thousands of DNA variants that are associated with human diseases. On…

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. RNA viruses including SARS-CoV-2 constantly accrue new mutations.Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/SPL Can AI help us see into viruses’ futures? A growing number of research groups are using artificial intelligence (AI) to predict the evolution of viruses such…

The University of Toronto in Canada raised its graduate-student stipends last November.Credit: James Wagner/Getty Stipends for biology and physics graduate students at Canadian universities fall well short of a living wage, an analysis reports. “All of the minimum stipends we found were below the poverty line after tuition, except for the physics department at the…

RNA viruses including SARS-CoV-2 constantly accrue new mutations.Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library The holy grail of pandemic preparedness is being able to predict how a virus will evolve just by looking at its genetic sequence. Those days are still a way off, but a growing number of research groups are using artificial intelligence (AI) to…

On a warm, sunny beach near Melbourne, Australia, Alethea Jerebine watched her daughters scrambling up a jumble of rocks. “Can they do that?” she worried about her 10-year-old and 13-year-old. The rocks were pocked with crevices and so steep that they gave Jerebine vertigo. Instinctively, she wanted to tell them to stop. At the same…

Abstract This study investigated the association between green tea or coffee consumption with cerebral white matter lesions and hippocampal and total brain volumes among 8766 community-dwelling participants recruited from the Japan Prospective Studies Collaboration for Aging and Dementia between 2016 and 2018. A Food Frequency Questionnaire was used to assess green tea and coffee consumption,…

Earth’s temperature has been climbing for decades.Credit: Mark J. Terrill/AP/Alamy Earth’s temperature has surged in the past two years, and climate scientists will soon announce that it hit a milestone in 2024: rising to more than 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. But is this sudden spike just a blip in the climate data, or an…

“23 Woodcock in 22 Years,” by Jeff Wilkerson (University of Iowa Press, ISBN 978-1-60938-987-1) At first glance, Jeff Wilkerson’s memoir of science and nature, “23 Woodcock in 22 Years,” seems a bit of an anomaly. The subtitle, “Reflections on Hunting, the Night Sky and Our Place in the Universe,” seems even more incongruous. #placement_661376_0_i{width:100%;margin:0 auto;}…