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DSM-5, released in 2013, will be superceded by a new guide to diagnose, classify, and treat mental health…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…
How DeepMind’s genome AI could help solve rare disease mysteries
Researchers at a Hackathon used AlphaGenome to search for the genetic causes of 29 undiagnosed diseases.Credit: Peter Kováč/Alamy…
artificial organ kept man alive until transplant
X-rays show a 33-year old patients’ new lungs (left) and old lungs (right).Credit: Northwestern Medicine A 33-year-old man…
Body condition among Svalbard Polar bears Ursus maritimus during a period of rapid loss of sea ice
Parmesan, C. & Yohe, G. A globally coherent fingerprint of climate change impacts across natural systems. Nature 421,…
Critical social media posts linked to retractions of scientific papers
Credit: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Posts on social-media platform X that are critical of scientific research can act…
Alternative explanation for how celestial objects generate large-scale magnetic fields
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 28 January 2026 Numerical simulations provide a mechanism that explains how celestial objects such as stars…
An X-ray-emitting protocluster at z ≈ 5.7 reveals rapid structure growth
JWST characterization of the JADES-ID1 protocluster Here we overview several key aspects of the JWST analysis. Specifically, we…