Why Japan is building its own version of ChatGPT (www.nature.com)
Some Japanese researchers feel that AI systems trained on foreign languages cannot grasp the intricacies of Japanese language and culture.
Your brain finds it easy to size up four objects but not five — here’s why (www.nature.com)
Neuron activity shows that the brain uses different systems for counting up to four, and for five or more....
ChatGPT generates fake data set to support scientific hypothesis (www.nature.com)
Researchers say that the model behind the chatbot fabricated a convincing bogus database, but a forensic examination shows it doesn’t pass for authentic.
Antimatter falls down, not up: CERN experiment confirms theory (www.nature.com)
Observing this simple phenomenon had eluded physicists for decades.
Consciousness theory slammed as ‘pseudoscience’ — sparking uproar (www.nature.com)
Researchers publicly call out theory that they say is not well supported by science, but that gets undue attention....
Dana-Farber retractions: meet the blogger who spotted problems in dozens of cancer papers (www.nature.com)
Nature talks to Sholto David about his process for flagging image manipulation and his tips for scientists under scrutiny.
More than 10,000 research papers were retracted in 2023 (www.nature.com)
The number of retractions issued for research articles in 2023 has passed 10,000 — smashing annual records — as publishers struggle to clean up a slew of sham papers and peer-review fraud. Among large research-producing nations, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Russia and China have the highest retraction rates over the past two...
This is the largest map of the human brain ever made (www.nature.com)
Researchers catalogue more than 3,000 different types of cell in our most complex organ.
Tiny ‘quantum dot’ particles win chemistry Nobel (www.nature.com)
Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov receive the prize for their work on glowing nanoparticles that are used in fields from electronics to surgery.
Pioneers of mRNA COVID vaccines win medicine Nobel (www.nature.com)
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman developed immunizations amid an unprecedented pandemic at record-breaking speed.
AI predicts how many earthquake aftershocks will strike — and their strength (www.nature.com)
Models trained on large data sets of seismic events can estimate the number of aftershocks better than conventional models do.
Duration of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine persistence and factors associated with cardiac involvement in recently vaccinated patients - npj Vaccines (www.nature.com)
npj Vaccines - Duration of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine persistence and factors associated with cardiac involvement in recently vaccinated patients
No-pay publishing: use institutional repositories [July 2023] (www.nature.com)
First global survey reveals who is doing ‘gain of function’ research on pathogens and why. (www.nature.com)
As US policymakers spar over how to regulate research involving potentially harmful pathogens, a report finds that it will be difficult to do so without compromising studies that are necessary for creating vaccines and life-saving therapies....
