Weird signal that baffled seismologists traced to mega-landslide in Greenland
Greenland’s Dickson Fjord, where last year a 1.2-kilometre-high mountain peak collapsed into the fjord triggering a far-reaching seismic signal.Credit: Jane
AI chatbot gets conspiracy theorists to question their convictions
Conspiracy theories and disinformation spread rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Credit: Hollie Adams/Getty Researchers have shown that artificial intelligence (AI)
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The brain aged more slowly in monkeys given a cheap diabetes drug
Cellular measures of ageing changed more slowly in the liver, brain and other tissues of monkeys taking the drug metformin.Credit:
Why do we crumble under pressure? Science has the answer
Basketballer Isaiah Thomas reacts after missing a crucial shot. Credit: Hector Amezcua/Sacramento Bee/Tribune News Service via Getty Have you ever
First private spacewalk a success! What the SpaceX mission means for science
Entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, shown here climbing from the spacecraft’s hatch, made history today as the first private citizen to complete
Thread, read, rewind, repeat: towards using nanopores for protein sequencing
Nature, Published online: 11 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02664-3 Biologists would love to be able to read out the amino-acid sequence of
Swirling star bubbles offer a glimpse of the Sun’s future
Nature, Published online: 11 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02663-4 A powerful telescope array has imaged the surface of a star called R
Rapa Nui’s population history rewritten using ancient DNA
Nature, Published online: 11 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02620-1 By analysing the ancient genomes of individuals from Rapa Nui, researchers have overturned
Life-seeking NASA mission to Europa is go
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