Nature News
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Can AI review the scientific literature — and figure out what it all means?
Artificial intelligence could help speedily summarize research. But it comes with risks.
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Will AI’s huge energy demands spur a nuclear renaissance?
Contracts with Google and Amazon could help, but bringing new types of reactor online will take larger investments — and time.
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Your diet can change your immune system — here’s how
Claims about food and immunity are everywhere. Now scientists are exploring exactly how nutrition acts on the immune system to boost health and treat disease.
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Largest brain map ever reveals fruit fly’s neurons in exquisite detail
Wiring diagram lays out connections between nearly 140,000 neurons and reveals new types of nerve cell.
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Where did viruses come from? AlphaFold and other AIs are finding answers
Protein structures predicted by artificial intelligence have charted the evolution of the virus family responsible for dengue and hepatitis C.
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The biology of smell is a mystery — AI is helping to solve it
Scientists are beginning to crack the fiendishly complex code that helps us to sense odours.
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Heaviest element yet within reach after major breakthrough
Success with a new route to producing superheavy elements paves the way to making the elusive element 120.
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Scientists edit the genes of gut bacteria in living mice
A ‘base editor’ successfully modified a gene in more than 90% of Escherichia coli bacteria without unwanted side effects.
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The science of protests: how to shape public opinion and swing votes
Demonstrations are on the rise, and scientists are revealing which types work best.