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First DNA from Pompeii body casts illuminates who victims were
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius (artist’s illustration) buried the city of Pompeii, Italy, in at least six metres of volcanic…
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Five protein-design questions that still challenge AI
Alena Khmelinskaia wants designing bespoke proteins to be as simple as ordering a meal. Picture a vending machine, she says,…
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The eight obituaries of a Shanghai person
One: 16 March 2074 Donghua Advertising Company is deeply saddened to announce that, owing to company restructuring and resource optimization,…
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How to spend one trillion dollars: the US decarbonization conundrum
Subsidizing people to buy electric vehicles can end up wasting money if they would have purchased one anyway.Credit: Paul Bersebach/MediaNews…
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Study reveals three ways to disappear down a Wikipedia rabbit hole
Data from hundreds of thousands of browsing sessions is revealing how people navigate Wikipedia. Credit: Sascha Steinbach/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock An analysis of…
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How to Fix Health Data for People with Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage
Many of the patients who come to Eugene Yang’s cardiology clinic trace their origins back to India, China, Korea, and…
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The huge protein database that spawned AlphaFold and biology’s AI revolution
Crystallographer Helen Berman co-founded the Protein Data Bank in the 1960s. Credit: Rutgers University The 2024 Nobels were all about…
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How do I tell someone that I can’t write them a strong letter of recommendation?
Illustration: David Parkins The problem Dear Nature, I’m a neuroscientist in the United States. I have written a lot of…
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retraction of high-profile reproducibility study prompts soul-searching
A retracted paper’s backstory illustrates the challenges of the technique called preregistration.Credit: Getty The retraction of a high-profile paper1 that…
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If the Nobel Prizes were designed today, what would change?
Members of the Swedish royal family join laureates on stage at the 2023 Nobel awards ceremony.Credit: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty…
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