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Four game-changing researchers in materials science
Global issues, such as climate change and improving sustainability in manufacturing, and technological opportunities, including artificial intelligence and quantum computing, are driving forward the frontiers of research in materials science. These four scientists are among a new generation of researchers helping to push forward these boundaries while also bringing diverse skills to the field, ensuring…
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Four game-changing researchers in materials science
Global issues, such as climate change and improving sustainability in manufacturing, and technological opportunities, including artificial intelligence and quantum computing, are driving forward the frontiers of research in materials science. These four scientists are among a new generation of researchers helping to push forward these boundaries while also bringing diverse skills to the field, ensuring…
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Local doctor named in Nature’s 10 for shaping science in 2024
A doctor at Shanghai’s Changzheng Hospital, who is behind a world-first treatment for autoimmune disease, has been announced as part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024. Dr Xu Huji led his team to adopt a novel CAR-T cell immunotherapy by using genetically engineered, healthy-donor-derived cells to treat patients with…
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Local doctor named in Nature’s 10 for shaping science in 2024
A doctor at Shanghai’s Changzheng Hospital, who is behind a world-first treatment for autoimmune disease, has been announced as part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024. Dr Xu Huji led his team to adopt a novel CAR-T cell immunotherapy by using genetically engineered, healthy-donor-derived cells to treat patients with…
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A simulated annealing algorithm for randomizing weighted networks
Abstract Scientific discovery in connectomics relies on network null models. The prominence of network features is conventionally evaluated against null distributions estimated using randomized networks. Modern imaging technologies provide an increasingly rich array of biologically meaningful edge weights. Despite the prevalence of weighted graph analysis in connectomics, randomization models that only preserve binary node degree…
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Nature Physics – No heat flow in ground-state graphene
No heat flow in ground-state graphene The ground state of electrons in undoped graphene at high magnetic field is still not fully known. Measurements of thermal conductance could help to differentiate between the various theoretically proposed candidates. Delagrange et al. report such measurements and find that the thermal conductivity is vanishingly small, in contradiction to…
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Nature’s 10: the people who helped shape science in 2024
A fraud buster, a nuclear-clock maker and a virus hunter. These are just a few of the remarkable people chosen for this year’s Nature’s 10. The Nature’s 10 list recognizes key developments in science over the past year, and tells the stories of some of the people behind them. It is compiled by Nature’s editors…
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This doctor raised the alarm about a deadly mpox outbreak that went global
Early this year, cases of mpox erupted across Central Africa, killing hundreds. Seeing the events unfold so soon after the still-simmering outbreak of 2022 “felt like scientific amnesia”, says Placide Mbala, an epidemiologist at the National Institute of Biomedical Research in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Enjoying our latest…
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This fearless science sleuth risked her career to expose publication fraud
Early this year, Anna Abalkina found out that her name was on a watch list for Roskomnadzor, a Russian agency that tracks online and social-media activity. Abalkina, a Russian citizen now working in Berlin, tries not to worry about it. There shouldn’t be a risk if she were to return to Russia, she reasons. “But…
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What’s next for Syria’s science: a view from Nature’s reporter who was a refugee
On the morning of 8 December, along with millions of Syrians, I awoke to a country no longer governed by the iron fist of the regime that had ruled for 54 years. I am Syrian but I no longer live in Syria. I am now a science journalist on staff at Nature and living in…