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How to defuse a time bomb
I swung up to the Cloudberry Tower in a hot morning drizzle. You could see the place was on the…
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a true measure of what matters in academia
Credit: Adapted from Getty More than half a century ago, information scientist Derek De Solla Price observed that the scientific…
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The future of AI
Nature is pleased to acknowledge financial support from FII Institute in producing the above story. Nature retains sole responsibility for all…
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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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