This bonobo had a pretend tea party — showing make believe isn’t just for humans
Kanzi the bonobo, pictured in 2016.Credit: First Run Features/Everett Collection via Alamy A male bonobo called Kanzi is…
Rete ridges form via evolutionarily distinct mechanisms in mammalian skin
Tissue sample collection, preservation and processing Back skin samples from age-matched adults and one litter of neonatal naked…
Innovative CAR-T therapy destroys cancer cells without dangerous side effects
Engineered T cells (pink) produce proteins called chimeric antigen receptors that target antigens in cancer cells (blue).Credit: Steve…
Measuring spin correlation between quarks during QCD confinement – Nature
Measuring spin correlation between quarks during QCD confinement NatureGlimpsing the quantum vacuum: Particle spin correlations offer insight into how…
Resolving intervalley gaps and many-body resonances in moiré superconductors
Park, J. M., Cao, Y., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T. & Jarillo-Herrero, P. Tunable strongly coupled superconductivity in magic-angle…
Synthesizing scientific literature with retrieval-augmented language models
OpenScholar OpenScholar (detailed in Extended Data Fig. 1) is a new retrieval-augmented LM designed to ensure reliable, high-quality responses…
Large-scale analogue quantum simulation using atom dot arrays
Strongly correlated quantum states, ubiquitous in quantum systems with complex band topology and strong interactions, are one of…
Open-source AI tool beats giant LLMs in literature reviews — and gets citations right
OpenScholar is an LLM that performs scientific literature reviews using a database of 45 million open-access articles.Credit: dpa…
your guide to the next DSM
DSM-5, released in 2013, will be superceded by a new guide to diagnose, classify, and treat mental health…
Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains?
Think about your breakfast this morning. Can you imagine the pattern on your coffee mug? The sheen of…
Are health influencers making us sick?
Bad Influence: How the Internet Hijacked Our Health Deborah Cohen Viking (2026) Previously, when you felt ill, you…
Still conscious? Brain marker signals when anaesthesia takes hold
Unconsciousness induced by the widely used drug propofol is marked by characteristic changes in electrical activity. Credit: Abed…