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AI is vulnerable to attack. Can it ever be used safely?
In 2015, computer scientist Ian Goodfellow and his colleagues at Google described what could be artificial intelligence’s most famous failure.…
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Could crabs be conscious, can you beat hypochondria and more: top reads for summer
Marginlands Arati Kumar-Rao Pan Macmillan (2023) Climate change will hit hardest the people living in the world’s most fragile landscapes.…
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China–US research collaborations are in decline — this is bad news for everyone
Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology in the US and Tianjin University in China collaborated to create the world’s first…
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botanists will vote on whether to change them
George Hibbert, an eighteenth-century English merchant who profited from the slave trade and fought abolition, lends his name to a…
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What Twisters gets right — and wrong — about tornado science
When Hollywood producers showed up a few years ago at Sean Waugh’s office, he couldn’t wait to show them his…
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Glutamate acts on acid-sensing ion channels to worsen ischaemic brain injury
Animals Wild-type C57BL/6J mice were purchased from Vital River company (China) and housed in groups, in the animal facility at…
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‘thrilling’ play shows fight for landmark climate treaty
Kyoto Dir . Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK 18 June to 13 Jul 2024 Climate change…
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Japan’s scientists demand more money for basic science
Scientists in Japan are calling for increased funding for basic research.Credit: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg via Getty More than 500 organizations representing…
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Bionic leg moves like a natural limb — without conscious thought
Trial participants with the robotic system could walk faster than those with standard robotic legs.Credit: H. Song et al./Nature Medicine…
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navigating retirement after an academic career
Julie Gould 00:09 Hello and welcome to Working Scientist, a Nature Careers podcast. I’m Julie Gould. This is the second…
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