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Four game-changing researchers in materials science

Global issues, such as climate change and improving sustainability in manufacturing, and technological opportunities, including artificial intelligence and quantum computing,…

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A guide to the Nature Index

The Nature Index is a database of author affiliations and institutional relationships. The index tracks contributions to research articles published…

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Why Asia is leading the field in green materials

A worker checks on the production of low-carbon materials in Huaibei, eastern China.Credit: NurPhoto/GettyBuying an ice cream in hot weather…

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How the latest materials are taking biosensors to the next level

A rendering of a bottlebrush elastomer and carbon-nanotube composite that researchers believe has potential use as a brain electrode.Credit: Xu,…

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Better data sets won’t solve the problem — we need AI for Africa to be developed in Africa

In May 2023 Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI in San Francisco, California, embarked on a 17-city world tour to…

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Accessibility worsens for blind and low-vision readers of academic PDFs

A study finds that many published papers are not accessible to low-vision and blind readers.Credit: Getty Around three out of…

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Betsy Donnelly’s forty-third chance

It was the moment I’d worked for all my life, and somehow it was even better than I’d imagined it:…

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The AI revolution is running out of data. What can researchers do?

Nature, Published online: 11 December 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03990-2AI developers are rapidly picking the Internet clean to train large language models such…

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Enigmatic Alpine avalanches to get a boost as Earth warms

Nature, Published online: 11 December 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-04009-6Climate change could raise the frequency of ‘wet-snow avalanches’ at high elevations in the…

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Engineered cells take drugs deep into the brain ― and nowhere else

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT 10 December 2024 Altered T cells, which have the ability to cross the blood–brain barrier, can deliver drugs…

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