how to fight back against a peer-review bully
Nyssa Silbiger still recalls the rude remark that reviewer three made in 2014 about her first paper describing…
Octopus arm flexibility facilitates complex behaviors in diverse natural environments
Arm actions Twelve arm actions were identified from 15 behaviors with a total of 3,907 actions recorded from…
black-hole breakthroughs will ‘only get better’
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) facility, in Hanford, Washington.Credit: IMAGO/Xinhua via Alamy Ten years after the historic…
AI-generated medical data can sidestep usual ethics review, universities say
Medical researchers at some institutions in Canada, the United States and Italy are using data created by artificial…
Probing the Kitaev honeycomb model on a neutral-atom quantum computer
Experimental system We use the experimental apparatus previously described in refs. 6,9,12,38,57, with key upgrades that enable efficient…
The emergence of globular clusters and globular-cluster-like dwarfs
Brodie, J. P. & Strader, J. Extragalactic globular clusters and galaxy formation. Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 44, 193–267…
Synthetic data can benefit medical research — but risks must be recognized
You have full access to this article via your institution. Synthetic data have the potential to improve aspects…
Observing differential spin currents by resonant inelastic X-ray scattering
Uchida, K. et al. Observation of the spin Seebeck effect. Nature 455, 778–781 (2008). Article PubMed ADS CAS …
Stabilizing effect of amino acids on protein and colloidal dispersions
Second osmotic virial coefficient A common way to evaluate the stability of a compound in a dispersion is…
The negligible role of carbon offsetting in corporate climate strategies
Quantitative data Our main data source for numerical sustainability data is the CDP (formerly known as Carbon Disclosure…
The maximum Tc of conventional superconductors at ambient pressure
Based on the observation that the coupling constant depends mainly on the phonon frequencies, McMillan in 196836 already…
Probing non-equilibrium topological order on a quantum processor
Floquet Kitaev model The Floquet Kitaev model is well understood because of a Majorana representation of the spins,…