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‘WithdrarXiv’ database of 14,000 retracted preprints launches
Thousands of preprints have been withdrawn from the arXiv preprint server because of factual or methodological errors.Credit: Ralf Geithe/Getty Researchers…
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‘Precocious’ early-career scientists with high citation counts proliferate
In 2023, more than 450 scientists who had begun publishing research only in the previous eight years were among the…
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Countdown to a nuclear clock: a three minute guide
Precise timekeeping helps us in our daily lives: from pinpointing your precise location with GPS to synchronising financial deals to…
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How a silly science prize changed my career
Download the 27 December long read podcast Marc Abrahams created the Ig Nobel prizes in 1991, after years of collecting…
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a festive parody song from the Nature Podcast
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Explore 2024 with Leif Penguinson
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a hero was born: Leif Penguinson, a Rockhopper penguin on a mission to…
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Are you what you eat? How food shapes self-image
For painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo in Vertumnus (1591), emperor Rudolf II was what he ate.Credit: Giuseppe Arcimboldo/Buyenlarge/Getty Eating and Being: A…
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Sci-fi icon Kim Stanley Robinson: ‘there’s so much bad fiction about anthropomorphizing AI’
Nature, Published online: 16 December 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-04116-4 The influential writer talks about frighteningly accurate predictions, the creative act of reading,…
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Fasting can reduce weight — but also hair growth
Human hairs sprout from follicles, which contain stem cells that are sensitive to dietary changes (artificially coloured).Credit: Dr Keith Wheeler/SPL…
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Why the genetic-testing revolution left some people behind — and what to do about it
Evolutionary geneticist Mary-Claire King did not anticipate the impact of her discovery.Credit: Rina Castelnuovo/New York Times/Redux/eyevine When Mary-Claire King embarked…
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