Can flashing lights stall Alzheimer’s? What the science shows
Every day around mid-morning, Joan retreats into the bedroom of her central Massachusetts home. She lowers the window blinds, settles
From crevasse falls to polar bears, train fieldwork leaders for emergencies
One year ago, Maya Bhatia, a biogeochemist at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, stepped out of a helicopter
Baby sea turtles ‘swim’ up from buried nests to the open air
Nature, Published online: 01 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03142-6 Turtle hatchlings, which can begin life up to a metre deep in sand,
How a potent immune therapy loses its punch against a blood cancer
The aggressive cancer called acute myeloid leukemia (AML) causes the body to make large numbers of abnormal white blood cells.
Hundreds of methane super-sources pinpointed in satellite data
An automated method can sniff out places that are emitting large amounts of methane, a heat-trapping gas1. Access options Access
US man guilty in cloned giant-sheep scheme
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Dealers need not apply: shipping plants for science in 1874
Nature, Published online: 01 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03184-w The efficacy of cancer treatment in 1924, and an offer of carnivorous plants
scientists impressed by latest ChatGPT model o1
Technology firm OpenAI released a preview version of its latest chatbot, o1, last month.Credit: GK Images/Alamy Researchers who helped to
Support the Pact for the Future
The United Nations Summit of the Future took place shortly before the start of the General Assembly (pictured).Credit: Thomas Trutschel/Photothek/Getty
scientists race to test vaccines in outbreak
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