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Google’s use of AI to power search shows a problematic approach to organizing information
The Raw Story· 11 hours agoFor academics, its specialized Google Scholar and Google Books are mainstays of our research lives. On May 14, Google announced it was revamping its core ...
Lessons from Ethiopian coffee landscapes for global conservation in a post-wild world -...
Nature· 5 days agoThis perspective discusses five conservation challenges using a landscape in Ethiopia as the lens, exploring a story on how the ecology and evolution of coffee shape biodiversity conservation can inspire to view other landscapes with fresh eyes.
Rapidly damping hydrogels engineered through molecular friction - Nature Communications
Nature· 7 days agoHydrogels capable of swift mechanical energy dissipation are desirable for various uses, but traditional energy absorption in hydrogels typically relies on viscoelastic mechanisms and often ...
Distinct developmental pathways generate functionally distinct populations of natural killer cells -...
Nature· 2 days agoBhandoola and colleagues describe the existence of two pathways of NK cell development that generate functionally distinct NK cell subsets in mice, and which may be conserved in humans.
Unease as US drug agency weighs its use of independent scientists
Nature· 1 day agoAfter several controversial drug approvals, the US Food and Drug Administration is mulling changes...
Sleep deprivation disrupts memory: here’s why
Nature· 3 days agoStudy in rats shows that a key brain signal linked to memory formation deteriorates after broken sleep.
What causes long COVID? Case builds for rogue antibodies
Nature· 2 days agoStudy finds that antibodies from people with the debilitating condition trigger similar symptoms in...
Africa switches from carbon sink to carbon source
Nature· 22 hours agoThe continent now emits more greenhouse gases than it absorbs, and contributes 40% of global emissions from agriculture.
How personalized cancer vaccines could keep tumours from coming back
Nature· 4 days agoThe same mRNA technology that quickly brought the world a vaccine for COVID-19 is now showing...
CRISPR improves a crop that feeds billions
Nature· 4 days agoThe gene-editing system, normally used to disrupt a gene, is applied to improve the function of a gene in rice.