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A day in the life of the world’s fastest supercomputer

Download the 27 September long read podcast The world’s fastest supercomputer, known as Frontier, is located at the Leadership Computing

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World’s largest telescope pauses expansion amid funding crunch

The world’s largest telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which is based in Australia and South Africa, is changing its

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Bigger chatbots tell more lies

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Do orangutans like your toothpaste? Books in brief

Environomics Dharshini David Elliott & Thompson (2024) Why should an orangutan care what toothpaste a person uses, asks economist Dharshini

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I botched my poster presentation — how do I perform better next time?

Illustration: David Parkins The problem Dear Nature, I’m a PhD student studying plant biotechnology at a university in South Africa.

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Revolutionary drug for schizophrenia wins US approval

Brain activity is shown in gold (artist’s illustration). A newly approved antipsychotic achieves its effects by activating brain proteins called

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researchers fear the end for science in Venezuela

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro speaks at a march in early August following a disputed election the month before.Credit: Maxwell Briceno/Reuters

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Satellites are photobombing astronomy data — could AI offer a solution?

The movement of satellites causes bright stripes in astronomical images.Credit: Caltech Optical Observatories/IPAC Astronomers have developed a machine-learning algorithm that

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Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes — a world first

A woman with type 1 diabetes started producing insulin (blue) after a stem cell transplant.Credit: Lennart Nilsson, Boehringer Ingelheim International

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This fish’s legs are made for walking — and tasting the sea floor

A northern sea robin (Prionotus carolinus) scurries across the sand on its six legs, which it also uses as shovels