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Soundboard-trained dogs produce non-accidental, non-random and non-imitative two-button combinations
Abstract Early studies attempting interspecies communication with great apes trained to use sign language and Augmented Interspecies Communication (AIC) devices were limited by methodological and technological constraints, as well as restrictive sample sizes. Evidence for animals’ intentional production of symbols was met with considerable criticisms which could not be easily deflected with existing data. More…
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This PhD student helped to win a major pay hike for Canadian researchers
On 16 April 2024, Kaitlin Kharas was one of a select few people ushered into an office across the street from the Canadian Parliament and given a sneak peek at the latest budget. Enjoying our latest content? Login or create an account to continue Access the most recent journalism from Nature’s award-winning team Explore the…
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A scalable framework for learning the geometry-dependent solution operators of partial differential equations
Abstract Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) using numerical methods is a ubiquitous task in engineering and medicine. However, the computational costs can be prohibitively high when many-query evaluations of PDE solutions on multiple geometries are needed. Here we aim to address this challenge by introducing Diffeomorphic Mapping Operator Learning (DIMON), a generic artificial intelligence framework…
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A 60-minute guide to landing your next job in science
Pursuing a career in science requires a wide range of skills.Credit: Getty A live webinar to help job-seeking scientists land their next role in academia, industry and other sectors is now available to watch as on demand. Held last month, the one-hour event run by Nature’s careers team attracted more than 600 attendees, many of…
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Nine books to help shape your science career in 2025
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Nine books to help shape your science career in 2025
Sharks Don’t Sink Jasmin Graham Pantheon (2024) Burnt out by a ”toxic, white, male-dominated publish-or-perish environment”, tired of being left to clean up rooms after a meeting and talked to as though she was lazy, Jasmin Graham quit academia in December 2019. Scrolling through Twitter (now X) one day in 2020 — during the pandemic…
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AI weatherman: the DeepMind researcher making faster, more accurate forecasts
Rémi Lam had heard about San Francisco’s microclimates, but he didn’t realize how idiosyncratic they could be until he moved there this year. “The street I live in can be foggy, and it’s sunny two blocks down,” he says. Weather forecasts for the city can be wildly incorrect depending on the location. Even state-of-the-art weather…
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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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What is the real toll of natural and climate disasters? Science has staggering new answers
The devastation of hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis or tornadoes is often conveyed by how many people have been injured or killed. And based on this, we assess “how bad was it really?” For example, the recent hurricane season in the Atlantic has cost nearly 300 lives in the US and the Caribbean, with Helene killing at…
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A science mega-programme is taking shape in the EU: what it means for researchers
EU research commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva held positions in the Bulgarian government.Credit: Thierry Monasse/Getty The European Union has a new research head, tasked with reshaping the world’s biggest collaborative research programme to help stop the bloc’s economic and technological downward slide. Ekaterina Zaharieva, a lawyer who has held multiple positions in the Bulgarian government — albeit…