Seventh patient ‘cured’ of HIV: why scientists are excited
Mutations in the gene that encodes a receptor called CCR5 can stop HIV (blue) entering immune cells.Credit: NIAID/National Institutes of
Meet the retired scientists who collaborate with younger colleagues
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Hybrid AI supercharges climate models
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So you got a null result. Will anyone publish it?
Evolutionary biologist Natalie Pilakouta thought it would be an easy theory to test: fish living in Iceland’s geothermal hot springs
Science must protect thinking time in a world of instant communication
Digital devices are proliferating but don’t always have the positive effect on productivity researchers might hope.Credit: Getty Video calls. Instant
Single-cell multiregion dissection of Alzheimer’s disease
Data reporting No statistical methods were used to predetermine sample size. The experiments were not randomized and the investigators were
How the rose got its iconic fragrance
The romantic smell of a blooming rose partly stems from a blend of volatile compounds called terpenes. Junzhong Shang at
Memory for music doesn’t diminish with age
Musical memory might be resistant to age-related cognitive declines because it stirs emotions and becomes more encoded in memory.Credit: SDI
Blood culture-free ultra-rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing
Heuverswyn, J. V. et al. Association between time to appropriate antimicrobial treatment and 30-day mortality in patients with bloodstream infections:
AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data
Here we provide a theoretical intuition for the phenomenon of model collapse. We argue that the process of model collapse