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Nature research paper: Spatial dynamics of brain development and neuroinflammation
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Spatial dynamics of brain development and neuroinflammation - Nature
A tri-omic atlas of the mouse brain from postnatal day 0 to P21 reveals that layer-specific projection neurons have a role in coordinating axonogenesis and myelination.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Nature research paper: Spatial dynamics of brain development and neuroinflammation
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Haritakis Papaioannou combines a mountaineer’s know-how with a scientific eye to track the slow recovery of chamois populations in western Greece
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Witnessing chamois populations recover
Haritakis Papaioannou combines a mountaineer’s know-how with a scientific eye to track the slow recovery of chamois populations in western Greece.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Haritakis Papaioannou combines a mountaineer’s know-how with a scientific eye to track the slow recovery of chamois populations in western Greece
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Nature research paper: The importance of past rifting in large igneous province development
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The importance of past rifting in large igneous province development - Nature
Seismic data from the Turkana Depression in East Africa show that areas of thinned lithosphere are not necessarily persistent weak zones where extension and magmatic provinces will develop.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Nature research paper: The importance of past rifting in large igneous province development
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Rector and AI researcher Nataliya Shakhovska tells Nature how Lviv Polytechnic National University is supporting students and staff members amid the war and about her hopes for the future
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Rebuilding Ukraine — one university’s bold vision
Rector and AI researcher Nataliya Shakhovska tells Nature how her institution is supporting students and staff members amid the war and about her hopes for the future.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Rector and AI researcher Nataliya Shakhovska tells Nature how Lviv Polytechnic National University is supporting students and staff members amid the war and about her hopes for the future
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After more than a decade of planning, the launch of the African Medicines Agency is being celebrated in Mombasa this week
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Africa finally has its own drug-regulation agency — and it could transform the continent’s health
If it gets things right, the first major regulator of medicines to launch for 30 years could empower Africa to tackle African challenges around health and disease.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
After more than a decade of planning, the launch of the African Medicines Agency is being celebrated in Mombasa this week
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Obituary: Hamilton Smith (1931-2025) molecular biologist who co-discovered precise molecular scissors for cutting DNA
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Hamilton Smith obituary: molecular biologist who co-discovered precise molecular scissors for cutting DNA
Nobel laureate who helped to sequence the first bacterial and human genomes.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Obituary: Hamilton Smith (1931-2025) molecular biologist who co-discovered precise molecular scissors for cutting DNA
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Documents discovered in 2023 revealed more about Rosalind Franklin’s role in solving DNA’s structure
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How Rosalind Franklin’s story was rewritten
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 26 April 2023
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November 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Documents discovered in 2023 revealed more about Rosalind Franklin’s role in solving DNA’s structure
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COP30 starts today, and with the US government absent, it will be others to alert climate catastrophe
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How to fight climate change without the US: a guide to global action
With the US government absent from the COP30 global climate summit, it will be up to others to avert catastrophe.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
COP30 starts today, and with the US government absent, it will be others to alert climate catastrophe
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Nature research paper: Specificity, length and luck drive gene rankings in association studies
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Specificity, length and luck drive gene rankings in association studies - Nature
Genetic association tests prioritize candidate genes based on different criteria.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Nature research paper: Specificity, length and luck drive gene rankings in association studies
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Getting Rosalind Franklin’s story right is crucial, because she has become a role model for women going into science
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What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Getting Rosalind Franklin’s story right is crucial, because she has become a role model for women going into science
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Nature research paper: Millisecond lifetimes and coherence times in 2D transmon qubits
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Millisecond lifetimes and coherence times in 2D transmon qubits - Nature
A materials platform using tantalum as a base layer and silicon as the substrate to construct superconducting qubits enables device performance improvements such as millisecond lifetimes and coherence times, as well as high time-averaged quality factors.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Nature research paper: Millisecond lifetimes and coherence times in 2D transmon qubits
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Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and training opportunities that the USA is losing
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Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’
Nature - From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional...
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November 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and training opportunities that the USA is losing
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By studying the process through which a soil bacterium naturally produces a well-known drug, scientists have discovered a powerful antibiotic that could help to fight drug-resistant infections
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Powerful new antibiotic that can kill superbugs discovered in soil bacteria
Nature - Surprise discovery could pave the way for new treatments against drug-resistant infections.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
By studying the process through which a soil bacterium naturally produces a well-known drug, scientists have discovered a powerful antibiotic that could help to fight drug-resistant infections
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Accumulating daily steps in longer bouts of walking is better for the heart than taking multiple short walks
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Longer walks beat shorter strolls for heart health
Nature - People who rack up most of their daily steps in walks lasting less than five minutes have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease than do those who amass their steps in big blocks.
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November 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Accumulating daily steps in longer bouts of walking is better for the heart than taking multiple short walks
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“I think there’s a collective amnesia right now about COVID-19”
SARS-CoV-2 infections have been rising in the past month, and limited surveillance is hampering health strategies
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SARS-CoV-2 infections have been rising in the past month, and limited surveillance is hampering health strategies
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COVID-19 is spreading again — how serious is it and what are the symptoms?
Nature - Limited COVID-19 surveillance data are hampering vaccination and health strategies, researchers say.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:21 PM
“I think there’s a collective amnesia right now about COVID-19”
SARS-CoV-2 infections have been rising in the past month, and limited surveillance is hampering health strategies
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SARS-CoV-2 infections have been rising in the past month, and limited surveillance is hampering health strategies
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A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire
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‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network
Nature - A high-resolution digital map nearly doubles the known length of the ancient road network.
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November 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire
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Tie, who has called herself Biotech Barbie, focuses her entrepreneurial ambitions on a controversial goal: altering the genome of human embryos to prevent genetic disorders
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‘Biotech Barbie’ says the time has come to consider CRISPR babies. Do scientists agree?
Nature - A company’s plan to edit the genomes of human embryos worries some researchers — but it might reflect the changing attitudes towards the controversial approach.
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November 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Tie, who has called herself Biotech Barbie, focuses her entrepreneurial ambitions on a controversial goal: altering the genome of human embryos to prevent genetic disorders
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By studying the process through which a soil bacterium naturally produces a well-known drug, scientists have discovered a powerful antibiotic that could help to fight drug-resistant infections
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Powerful new antibiotic that can kill superbugs discovered in soil bacteria
Nature - Surprise discovery could pave the way for new treatments against drug-resistant infections.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
By studying the process through which a soil bacterium naturally produces a well-known drug, scientists have discovered a powerful antibiotic that could help to fight drug-resistant infections
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A new technique called ‘mind captioning’ generates descriptive sentences of what a person is seeing or picturing in their mind using a read-out of their brain activity
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‘Mind-captioning’ AI decodes brain activity to turn thoughts into text
Nature - A non-invasive imaging technique can translate scenes in your head into sentences. It could help to reveal how the brain interprets the world.
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November 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
A new technique called ‘mind captioning’ generates descriptive sentences of what a person is seeing or picturing in their mind using a read-out of their brain activity
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Chatbots and AI models are challenging ideas about who — or what — can create art, music and more
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Can AI be truly creative?
Nature - Chatbots and AI models are challenging ideas about who — or what — can create art, music and more.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Chatbots and AI models are challenging ideas about who — or what — can create art, music and more
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Nature research paper: Transcriptomic and spatial organization of telencephalic GABAergic neurons
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Transcriptomic and spatial organization of telencephalic GABAergic neurons - Nature
Long-distance migration and dispersion is a common characteristic of nearly all classes of telencephalic GABAergic neurons, which diversify extensively after birth in the cortex and striatum, but show limited postnatal changes in the septum, preoptic area and pallidum.
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November 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Nature research paper: Transcriptomic and spatial organization of telencephalic GABAergic neurons
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Scientists are developing antibodies to track the evolution of these viruses and better treat infections
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Antibody drugs show promise for treating bird flu and HIV
Nature - Scientists are developing antibodies to track the evolution of these viruses and better treat infections.
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November 8, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Scientists are developing antibodies to track the evolution of these viruses and better treat infections
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Watson – who won the Nobel Prize for his role in divining the structure of DNA; was instrumental in initiating and propelling the Human Genome Project; and who became notorious for his history of racist and sexist comments – has died at 97
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November 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Watson – who won the Nobel Prize for his role in divining the structure of DNA; was instrumental in initiating and propelling the Human Genome Project; and who became notorious for his history of racist and sexist comments – has died at 97
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