I co-wrote one for a journal in 2023. This is what I learnt in the process.

Century-scale records of agricultural liming and anthropogenic acidity inputs for the Mississippi River Basin show that agricultural liming has acted as a net carbon sink over the past century.

Deepfakes and misinformation driven by artificial intelligence have become a point of deep concern for legislators, advocates and the public

Here, the authors introduce an interpretable Bayesian framework for inferring effective opinion update rules among interacting large language models, separating interaction-driven opinion change from ...

We present a method using remote sensing data and least-cost routing to quantify connectivity between coastal points and river mouths Applying the method to California coastal rivers with Sentine...

An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.

The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex exhibits non-linear, cell-type-specific transcriptional trajectories characterized by dynamic remodelling during development, relative stability in midlife and selec...

Persistence of inequality in regional warming patterns under net-zero and overshoot pathways, King, Andrew D, Clark, Spencer, Sengupta, Aditya, Pall, Pardeep, Meinshausen, Malte, Kulkarni, Ruchit, Lyu...

The Antarctic Ice Sheet is committed to mass loss by 2100, with higher greenhouse gas emissions increasing its contribution to sea-level rise according to observation-constrained projections. Emission...

Voters globally have soured on AI because of existential risks the technology poses as well as concerns such as job losses and energy use.

The new AI agent, Muse, was released last week and has been downloaded by 3 million users

Arctic observations over 2003–2024 identify three aerosol regimes with contrasting responses to warming and cloud condensation nuclei trends. Model projections suggest that the aerosol–cloud feedbacks...

A woman with no lawyer used ChatGPT to write her witness statement. The man she had accused made it his argument.

Massively parallel reporter assays and human–ape hybrid skeletal cells are used to study the evolution of human cis-regulatory elements (CREs), revealing how differences in CREs have sh...

Tropical forest canopies exhibit immense chemical and structural diversity. This study shows that remotely mapped forest functional groups can predict the life histories, morphologies, and vulnerabili...

Do AI safety pledges break antitrust law? Four subscribers just sued to find out.

The human brain’s capacity to imagine visual scenes from memory is thought to rely on the medial temporal subsystem of the default mode network (MT-DMN), yet the neural codes supporting this ability r...

Researchers develop a framework that captures long-range physiological interactions from sleep recordings to predict obstructive sleep apnea severity. Validated in more than 35,000 individuals, it sho...

Urban areas are dominated by compound and nighttime hot-wet extremes, whereas independent daytime days prevail in rural zones Dampened diurnal cycles in cities limit nocturnal cooling efficiency,...

The collapse of the western Baltic herring fishery by the year 1570 caused large disruptions. Using a time series of Baltic herring catches spanning 450 years, this study examined the socioeconomic an...

Land–atmosphere coupling considerably amplifies projected heat extremes across New Zealand despite its maritime climate EF–TXx coupling is strongest ∼2 months before heat extremes, highlighting t...

This paper proposes a blockchain-backed agentic security framework designed to safeguard the complete software development lifecycle (SDLC) while also securing the agentic AI components responsible fo...

Educational institutions find themselves suddenly confronted with a fork in the road

Lighting Up the Circumgalactic Medium: Strong, Jet-aligned Hα Emission around Radio Galaxies, Roy, Namrata, Borthakur, Sanchayeeta, Heckman, Timothy, Singh, Tanmay

North Sea storm surges not only cluster in time, but preceding events can also physically amplify subsequent surges An amplification timescale near 2 days is established from basin-scale post-sur...

Lacustrine nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions remain highly uncertain in the global greenhouse gas budget largely because of sparse observations and the omission of small lakes. Here we compile the Global ...

Debates over AI development, regulation and datacenters have become buzzy topics for US presidential candidates

Transiting Planetary Systems with Distant Giant Companions Remain Moderately Coplanar, Xiao, Guang-Yao, Teng, Huan-Yu, Huang, Xiumin, Feng, Fabo, Lai, Dong, Dai, Fei, Liu, Yu-Juan

Adury et al. show that adding resistance training-based physical therapy to botulinum toxin treatment was associated with adaptive reorganization of motor

Simulating microplastic distribution in oceans: The impact of morphology and sources, GAYMARD, Anne, Richon, Camille, Egger, Matthias, Lebreton, Laurent, Gorgues, Thomas

Submesoscale processes substantially influence the Southern Ocean meridional overturning circulation (MOC) Submesoscale processes affect the MOC by directly inducing anticlockwise overturning and...

Vortex motion and heating prevent direct-current measurements from reaching the intrinsic depairing limit of type-II superconductors. Picosecond pulses bypass these effects and reveal a sharp threshol...

Regional El Niño patterns shape wheat-flour price responses to climate disasters, D’Amico, Elisa

Preziosa et al. apply SuStaIn to 3T brain MRI scans and identify four distinct multiple sclerosis subtypes, each with a specific pattern of structural dama

Abstract. We fit the multi-band light curves of 2,205 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the Zwicky Transient Facility DR2 with a one-zone radioactive decay

Underground nuclear explosions typically produce short-lived seismic sequences that decay rapidly after testing ceases. By contrast, seismicity near the Punggye-ri nuclear test site at Mt. Mantap in t...

Financing costs vary widely across countries and sectors, influencing the feasibility of global decarbonization. This research shows that accounting for these differences increases mitigation costs an...

Molecular fossils provide a continuous quantitative Pliocene-Pleistocene land temperature from the East Asian monsoon marginal region Land temperature cooled with global cooling during the late P...

Molecular fossils provide a continuous quantitative Pliocene-Pleistocene land temperature from the East Asian monsoon marginal region Land temperature cooled with global cooling during the late P...

New York and Los Angeles have switched it off for around a million children. We have run this experiment before.

Hepatic-specific repression of the miR-379/miR-410 cluster in adult mice impacts hepatic insulin signalling and affects whole-body glucose and lipid metabolism, improving glycemic control and dyslipid...

Mean-state warming loads Germany’s extreme summer heat burden, Samakinwa, Eric, Scheiber, Leon, Cohrs, Jan-Christopher, Pfeifer, Susanne, Rechid, Diana

Everyone, it seems, now wants "sovereign AI". The UK government has launched a £500m Sovereign AI fund to back British artificial intelligence (AI) startups. Cloud providers advertise it. Industry ana...

Your conversations with AI chatbots are both highly personal and deeply vulnerable to surveillance. Here’s how you can protect yourself.

Secondary endpoint analyses in the NHS-Galleri randomized controlled trial, testing a multi-cancer early detection test added to usual care, provide insights on the performance of the blood-based test...

Leveraging proteomic data from nearly 15,000 women across several cohorts, this study found that menopause is associated with hormone-linked molecular changes that correlate with poorer cognitive outc...

We use machine learning to quantify changes in Europe's recent heatwaves from incremental changes in cumulative anthropogenic emissions Despite decarbonization efforts, we find strong evidence th...