Nature News
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Living factories of the future
Scientists are designing cells that can manufacture drugs, food and materials — and even act as diagnostic biosensors. But first they must agree on a set of engineering tools.
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‘Sci fi’ eye experiments improve vision in children — and rabbits
Cells grown both inside and outside the body show promise in fixing lenses and corneas.
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Psychology’s reproducibility problem is exaggerated – say psychologists
Reanalysis of last year’s enormous replication study argues that there is no need to be so pessimistic.
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Role of chaos in deep ocean turned upside down
Reversal could change timeline of heat and carbon storage in the seas
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Modern Milgram experiment sheds light on power of authority
People obeying commands feel less responsibility for their actions.
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The truth about exoplanets
Astronomers are beginning to glimpse what exoplanets orbiting distant suns are actually like.
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Reproducibility: A tragedy of errors
Mistakes in peer-reviewed papers are easy to find but hard to fix, report David B. Allison and colleagues.
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Scientists swab C-section babies with mothers’ microbes
Newborns were exposed experimentally to vaginal microbes to restore the microbiomes they missed.
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Hawking’s latest black-hole paper splits physicists
Some welcome his latest report as a fresh way to solve a black-hole conundrum; others are unsure of its merits.