NATURE
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Money and power underlie mysterious Andean ‘band of holes’
Nature, Published online: 12 November 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03660-x The purpose of the pre-Hispanic Monte Sierpe site in Peru has long baffled…
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DNA pioneer James Watson has died ― colleagues wrestle with his legacy
Watson shared in the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his role in elucidating the structure of DNA.…
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inside Kenya’s multibillion-dollar fake-essay industry
In her work for the documentary Shadow Scholars, Patricia Kingori visited Kenya to meet academic ghostwriters.Credit: Anna Patarakina Four years…
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Francis Crick beyond the double helix
Francis Crick served in the British Admiralty and conducted research into naval mines.Credit: GL Archive/Alamy Crick: A Mind in Motion…
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Too much social media gives AI chatbots ‘brain rot’
Llama 3 is a large language model owned by tech firm Meta.Credit: MauriceNorbert/Alamy Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are worse at…
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Plants have a secret language that scientists are only now starting to decipher
When Robert Hooke gazed through his microscope at a slice of cork and coined the term ‘cell’ in 1665, he…
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How Napoleon’s army met its doom: DNA reveals surprise illnesses had a role
Nature, Published online: 24 October 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03487-6 Remains of some of the 300,000 soldiers who died on the retreat from…
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How to spot fake scientists and stop them from publishing papers
Beatriz Ychussie’s career in mathematics seemed to be going really well. She worked at Roskilde University in Denmark where, in…
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Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data
Success rates for Europe’s leading research grants are declining — some to single percentage points — as a surge in…
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Aboveground biomass in Australian tropical forests now a net carbon source
Pan, Y. et al. The enduring world forest carbon sink. Nature 631, 563–569 (2024). Article ADS CAS PubMed Google Scholar …
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