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Science’s fake-paper problem: high-profile effort will tackle paper mills
Paper mills often sell authorships to researchers on nonsense papers.Credit: Jes2ufoto/Alamy A high-profile group of funders, academic publishers and research organizations has launched an effort to tackle one of the thorniest problems in scientific integrity: paper mills, businesses that churn out fake or poor-quality journal papers and sell authorships. In a statement released on 19…
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Medical AI could be ‘dangerous’ for poorer nations, WHO warns
A technician uses an artificial-intelligence-based method to screen a sample for cervical cancer.Credit: AFP via Getty The introduction of health-care technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) could be “dangerous” for people in lower-income countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. The organization, which today issued a report describing new guidelines on large multi-modal models…
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Long-COVID signatures identified in huge analysis of blood proteins
Long COVID is characterized by symptoms such as fatigue and brain fog, which can persist for months or years after SARS-CoV-2 infection.Credit: Jovelle Tamayo/The Washington Post via Getty Researchers have developed a computational model that predicts how likely a person is to develop long COVID, based on an analysis of more than 6,500 proteins found…
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A crime-busting path to planetary science
A mural featuring George Floyd, whose 2020 murder by a police officer sparked Andrew Lincowski’s career change.Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Working Scientist profiles This article is the first in an occasional Nature series in which we profile scientists with unusual career histories or outside interests. Click on Andrew Lincowski’s LinkedIn profile, and his headline jumps out:…
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The consciousness wars: can scientists ever agree on how the mind works?
Neuroscientist Lucia Melloni didn’t expect to be reminded of her parents’ divorce when she attended a meeting about consciousness research in 2018. But, much like her parents, the assembled academics couldn’t agree on anything. The group of neuroscientists and philosophers had convened at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, Washington, to devise a…
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Growth of biotech clusters over several decades through pioneering, variety and entrepreneurial science
Biotechnology (biotech) clusters have evolved over time. Being a top biotech region in the early years 1978–1990 still positively correlates with the cluster’s biotech strength decades later. An entrepreneurial orientation of scientific actors as well as a variety of networks with partners outside the cluster both contribute to sustained biotech activity. Over a few decades,…
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Daily briefing: Can scientists ever agree on how consciousness works?
Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. The cloned rhesus monkey, named ReTro, is the first to survive to adulthood.Credit: Qiang Sun Cloned rhesus monkey lives into adulthood For the first time, a rhesus monkey cloned in the laboratory has lived into adulthood…
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Nature – The great ex-ape
The great ex-ape Standing some 3 metres tall and weighing 200–300 kilograms, Gigantopithecus blacki is thought to be the largest primate that ever lived. Pictured in an artist’s reconstruction on the cover, the giant ape was found in China between 2 million and 300,000 years ago, but why it died out remains a mystery. In…
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Between the Trees Festival shares exciting 2024 lineup
Sam Kelly performs at Between the Trees Stephen Price Between the Trees Festival has shared the lineup for their highly-anticipated 2024 4 day nature and science themed indie-folk festival set in a Welsh woodland by the sea. Between The Trees is the vision of two educators, Andrew Thomas and Dawn Wood, and aims to reconnect people…
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Basic science is not just a foundation
Intellectual freedom for scientists, unconstrained by commercial interests and direct application, fuels unexpected discoveries. Curiosity-driven, basic science has yielded a deeper understanding of how life forms develop and function in their environment and has had wide implications for health and our planet. Investing in this is vital for scientific progress and is worth protecting in…