Lonely? Playful? Why are dolphin attacks rising in Japan?
Male bottlenose dolphins can form lifelong partnerships with other males, and can spend hours chasing each other. Credit: Kirsty Nadine/Getty
AI firms must play fair when they use academic data in training
The definition of copyright in an age of artificial-intelligence tools is an open question, both legally and morally.Credit: Getty No
What accelerates brain ageing? This AI ‘brain clock’ points to answers
A functional magnetic resonance imaging scan (artificially coloured) of a human brain. Researchers used data from such scans to measure
Man versus horse: who wins?
Nature, Published online: 27 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02667-0 An interspecies endurance test, and a defence of Darwin’s reticence on the origins
Scientists, your local communities need you. It’s time to step up
From tackling the COVID-19 pandemic to addressing climate change, the success of most policies depends on how they are implemented
The cool technologies that could protect cities from dangerous heat
It’s time to brace for record-breaking heat. Last year was the hottest on record and 2024 is shaping up to
crowdsourced database makes them easy to find
Credit: Carol Yepes/Getty Studies that try to replicate the findings of published research are hard to come by: it can
How I create virtual twins for fabrics and furniture
“I work in the home-goods industry, building virtual worlds that are faithful to reality, to aid online sales. For example,
Birth of protein folds and functions in the virome
Preparation of protein sequences Protein sequences for eukaryotic viruses present in RefSeq54 were collected through the NCBI Viruses portal (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/virus)
Mysterious Oropouche virus is spreading: what you should know
The Southern house mosquito (Culex quinquefasciatus; artificially coloured) can transmit Oropouche virus to humans, but the main vector is the