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Open science — embrace it before it’s too late

Biodiversity science is benefiting from volunteer researchers (seen here working at Chicago’s Fields Museum).Credit: Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service/Getty The…

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Building used by Marie Curie will be dismantled to erect cancer centre

French-Polish chemist Marie Skłodowska-Curie discovered radium and later used radioactivity to treat patients at the Radium Institute in Paris.Credit: Hulton-Deutsch…

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Stone tools in northern Europe made by <i>Homo sapiens</i> 45,000 years ago

Nature, Published online: 31 January 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-00072-1 DNA analyses of skeletal fragments from a site in Germany provide evidence that…

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First aircraft to fly on Mars dies — but leaves a legacy of science

The Mars helicopter Ingenuity propels itself with two blades that are 1.2 metres in length.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter, the…

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Japan’s successful Moon landing was the most precise ever

Artist’s impression of the SLIM spacecraft coming in for landing on the Moon.Credit: JAXA Japan has become the fifth country…

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high-profile effort will tackle paper mills

Paper mills often sell authorships to researchers on nonsense papers.Credit: Jes2ufoto/Alamy A high-profile group of funders, academic publishers and research…

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Cloned rhesus monkey lives to adulthood for first time

The cloned rhesus monkey, named ReTro, is the first to survive to adulthood.Credit: Qiang Sun For the first time, a…

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Google AI has better bedside manner than human doctors — and makes better diagnoses

A chatbot based on Google’s large language model can take medical histories from simulated patients and offer a range of…

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