NATURE
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The chatbots claiming to be Jesus: spreading gospel or heresy?
‘God’s influencer’ Carlo Acutis was canonized on 7 September by Pope Leo XIV. Acutis was known for his use of…
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Why we launched Denmark’s second Young Academy (and what’s different about it)
YATSI fellows visiting NKT Photonics in Birkerød, Denmark.Credit: Tom Jersø/Danish Academy of Technical Sciences As early-career researchers navigate increasingly complex…
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Head start: fossil clues about how bodies evolved from two-fold to five-fold symmetry
Nature, Published online: 09 September 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02818-x How the five-fold symmetrical bodies of starfish and other echinoderms evolved is a…
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Different flames
“Fire day! Fire day!” Roger chanted, the other kids joining in. Elo shrank in her seat. She’d already dreaded today’s…
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Seismic detection of a 600-km solid inner core in Mars
Data preprocess To avoid pitfalls related to transient one-sided pulses, typically referred to as glitches50, we first use two glitch-removal…
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Hundreds of suspicious journals flagged by AI screening tool
An AI tool can screen thousands of journals, and identify ones that violate quality standards.Credit: PaulPaladin/Alamy Researchers have identified more…
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Beer lovers fall into two flavour camps — which one are you in?
Average beer drinkers either like lagers with strong flavour chemicals or mellow ones, a new study has found.Credit: LeoPatrizi/Getty Washington…
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How a self-taught biologist transformed nature writing — and inspired Darwin
A Year with Gilbert White: The First Great Nature Writer Jenny Uglow Faber & Faber (2025) The first person to…
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Net zero needs AI — five actions to realize its promise
In 2024, the global average annual temperature exceeded 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels for the first time. Greenhouse-gas emissions are rising,…
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A baby benefits from personalized gene editing in the clinic
Nature, Published online: 19 August 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02590-y An infant with an inherited life-threatening metabolic condition has responded to a tailored…
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