the events to watch for in the coming year
India’s Aditya-L1 spacecraft launched in 2023. Next year, it will observe the Sun during its peak activity phase.Credit:…
People Are Paying to Get Their Chatbots High on ‘Drugs’
Petter Rudwall knows the idea of AIs becoming sentient and seeking to get high with code-based “drugs” seems…
IBM, AWS veteran says 90% of your employees are stuck in AI’s first gear
Employers are shelling out millions on artificial intelligence (AI) tools to boost productivity, but workers are still getting…
Novyte Materials raises pre-seed funding from Theia Ventures, others
BENGALURU: Theia Ventures, an early stage fund focused on AI, deeptech, energy transition, and decarbonization, on Wednesday announced…
More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance
Survey results suggest that peer reviewers are increasingly turning to AI.Credit: Panther Media Global/Alamy More than 50% of…
Neanderthals mastered fire — 400,000 years ago
You have full access to this article via your institution. Download the Nature Podcast 10 December 2025 In…
Patterns of earthquakes over time in Yellowstone highlight the complexity of seismic swarms
Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This…
Two Gen Zers turned down millions from Elon Musk to build an AI based on the human brain—and it’s outperformed models from OpenAI and Anthropic
Two years ago, a pair of 22-year-old friends who met in high school in Michigan found themselves sitting…
Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold shows why science may be AI’s killer app
While many businesses continue to seek AI’s killer app, biochemists have already found it. That application is protein…
Wētā FX and AWS to Develop AI Tools for VFX Artists
Wētā FX and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have just announced an agreement to explore development of artificial intelligence…
Teens Seek Mental-Health Help From Chatbots. That’s Dangerous, Says New Study.
Teens regularly turn to generative-AI chatbots in search of mental-health support. A report on a study said this…
The Internet is broken and the inventor of the World Wide Web wants to fix it
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee Farrar, Straus and Giroux…