Hallucinated citations highest in social sciences preprints site
Analyses of research repositories are estimating the rates of hallucinated citations in research papers.Credit: patpitchaya/iStock via Getty The…
Enhanced response of extreme compound events to cumulative CO2 emissions
Zscheischler, J. et al. A typology of compound weather and climate events. Nat. Rev. Earth Environ. 1, 333–347…
Did Homo erectus and Denisovans mate? Tooth proteins hint at ancient trysts
Ancient proteins were extracted from the tooth enamel from several Homo erectus individuals, including ‘Peking man’, illustrated above.Credit:…
Adaptive cellular evolution in the intestine of hyperdiverse cichlid fishes
Darwin, C. On the Origin of Species (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1859). Simpson, G. G. The Major Features of…
SNOR promotes translation restart after dormancy
Sample preparation for cryo-ET Cryo-ET samples were prepared using 200-mesh R2/2 copper grids (Quantifoil) plasma-cleaned for 30 s in…
Ecotypes of triple-negative breast cancer in response to chemotherapy
Study participant details from the ARTEMIS Trial The clinical trial protocol was reviewed and approved by The University…
Enamel proteins from six Homo erectus specimens across China
Protein extractionAnimal fossils Powder was drilled from the dentin (Supplementary Data 1), then mixed with 1.5 ml of 0.6 M HCl…
AI can design viruses, toxins and other bioweapons. How worried should we be?
It’s hard to imagine that a snail could kill a person, but a particularly venomous group of marine…
Gaussian boson sampling with 1,024 squeezed states in 8,176 modes
Aaronson, S. & Arkhipov, A. The computational complexity of linear optics. Theory Comput. 9, 143–252 (2013). Article Google…
The sleep paradox: why do humans sleep so little when we need it so much?
The Sleepless Ape: The Story of Sleep in Human Evolution David R. Samson Princeton Univ. Press (2026) Sleep…
Ice core reveals longest-ever continuous record of Earth’s climate
Antarctic ice cores preserve tiny bubbles of ancient air, offering a record of Earth’s past atmosphere.Credit: British Antarctic…
Homestead food production improves women’s dietary diversity in Bangladesh
GBD 2017 Diet Collaborators Lancet 393, 1958–1972 (2019). Article Google Scholar The State of Food Security and Nutrition…