- Quanta Magazine·17h ago
Quantum ‘Jamming’ Explores the Truly Fundamental Principles of Nature
Some quantum cryptographers want to find ways to keep messages secret even if the rules of quantum mechanics don’t hold. The recently rediscovered idea of quantum jamming complicates things.
CryptoHealth - Nature News·1d ago
US lawmakers intensify scrutiny of scientific-publishing practices
A congressional hearing covered the rise of paper mills and the costs of open-access publishing — but there was little agreement on what reform would entail. A congressional hearing covered the rise of paper mills and the costs of open-access publishing — but there was little agreement on what reform would entail.
AIPoliticsHealth - Nature News·1d ago
New year, old me
The worst thing about having a human boss was definitely the year-end parties. Not that work retreats were any better. And don’t get me started on the retirement parties.But year-end parties were always a...
CryptoHealth - Nature News·1d ago
Immune cells have a surprising role in exercise endurance
NEWS 17 April 2026 Study in mice suggests that B cells help regulate muscle...
PoliticsHealth - Nature News·1d ago
Briefing Chat: Penguins pick up PFAS pollution
NATURE PODCAST 17 April 2026 Nature staff discuss some of the week's top science...
AppleSpaceHealth - Ars Science·1d ago
Meet the Quantum Kid
Scientists are often advised to explain their work in terms that a child can understand—a task that is particularly challenging when it comes to such complex topics as quantum mechanics. It’s easier when the...
Health - Nature News·2d ago
Daily briefing: AI systems can ‘teach’ biases to other models
Data generated by AI ‘teachers’ can subliminally pass on particular traits to ‘student’ models. Plus, sperm-whale communication is structured similarly to some human languages and the success of China’s ‘Great Green Wall’. Data generated by AI ‘teachers’ can subliminally pass on particular traits to ‘student’ models. Plus, sperm-whale communication is structured similarly to some human languages and the success of China’s ‘Great Green Wall’.
AIClimatePoliticsHealth - Nature News·2d ago
Venus’s impenetrable haze could be made of cosmic dust
Modelling suggests that the layer beneath the planet’s acidic clouds is comprised of particles from outer space. Modelling suggests that the layer beneath the planet’s acidic clouds is comprised of particles from outer space.
Space - Nature News·2d ago
Graves reveal plague’s inequitable toll
Most of the individuals in a seventeenth-century-Switzerland burial site had performed strenuous manual labour and died before the age of 20. Most of the individuals in a seventeenth-century-Switzerland burial site had performed strenuous manual labour and died before the age of 20.
Health - Nature News·2d ago
Ageing could prime women for autoimmune disorders
Study of gene expression also finds age-related increases in men’s vulnerability to certain cancers. Study of gene expression also finds age-related increases in men’s vulnerability to certain cancers.
Health - Nature News·2d ago
‘Science needs defending’: record number of researchers run for office in US mid-terms
Many Democrats making the switch to politics are motivated by the Trump administration’s cuts to science — whereas energy and AI are a pull for some Republicans. Many Democrats making the switch to politics are motivated by the Trump administration’s cuts to science — whereas energy and AI are a pull for some Republicans.
AICryptoClimatePoliticsHealth - Nature News·2d ago
The nine-to-five PhD: mere myth or an achievable goal?
Can you squeeze your graduate programme into a 40-hour working week? These 13 current and former PhD candidates reveal their top time-management tips. Can you squeeze your graduate programme into a 40-hour working week? These 13 current and former PhD candidates reveal their top time-management tips.
Health - Nature News·2d ago
Quantum computers take on health care: light-sensitive cancer drugs win US$2-million contest
Quantum machines are making inroads into biology but have no ‘advantage’ over classical machines yet. Quantum machines are making inroads into biology but have no ‘advantage’ over classical machines yet.
Health - Nature News·2d ago
Revealed: how male and female brain cells differ in gene activity
Variations in gene expression could help to explain why brain-disease risks differ according to sex. Variations in gene expression could help to explain why brain-disease risks differ according to sex.
CryptoHealth - Ars Science·2d ago
New 3D map of Universe could solve dark energy mystery
mapping dark energy Latest data must still be analyzed but could help determine if dark energy is constant or varies over time. ...
CryptoSpaceClimateHealth - Quanta Magazine·2d ago
The Ancient Weapons Active in Your Immune System Today
Introduction Evolutionary arms races — where one species is pitted against another, driving the evolution of new or more sophisticated weapons as each tries to gain the upper hand — are...
AIMarketsCryptoHealth - Ars Science·2d ago
What’s the deal with Alzheimer’s disease and amyloid?
nice hypothesis you got there, shame if something happened to it… For decades, scientists have concentrated on what now looks to be a blind...
CryptoClimatePoliticsHealth - Nature News·3d ago
Carbonyl swapping converts cyclic ketones to saturated heterocycles
Article Published: 15 April 2026 Zisheng Xue ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-3399-792X1,2 na1, Zhengzhao Lou ORCID:...
Climate - Nature News·3d ago
Author Correction: HER2 expression identifies dynamic functional states within circulating breast cancer cells
Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/nature19328 Published online 24 August 2016In the version of this article initially published, representative HER2-stained histology images in Extended Data...
Health - Nature News·3d ago
Editorial Expression of Concern: Creation of human tumour cells with defined genetic elements
Editorial Expression of Concern Published: 15 April 2026 Nature (2026)Cite this...
CryptoHealth - Nature News·3d ago
Retraction Note: The hidden fitness of the male zebra finch courtship song
The authors have retracted this article because, upon further analysis, one of the synthetic song pairs used in the female preference test (data in Fig. 3c,d) was shown to be reliable in its ranking of short...
- Nature News·3d ago
Cytoplasmic lattices are megadalton storage complexes in mammalian oocytes
Article Published: 15 April 2026 Nature (2026)Cite this...
AIClimate - Nature News·3d ago
Monolithic 3D integration of tantalum pentoxide nonlinear photonics
Monolithic three-dimensional (3D) integration of tantalum pentoxide on a lithium niobate substrate enables scalable, multifunctional photonic systems and the incorporation of nonlinear optics directly into existing and emerging photonics infrastructure.
Climate - Nature News·3d ago
Linear RAG scanning mediates editing of Igκ variable region repertoires
Studies explaining the secondary Igk recombination mechanism are described and Cer/Sis deletion and/or displacement is implicated as a developmental switch converting the rearrangement mechanisms from two-loop-based diffusional primary Igk into one-loop-based linear scanning secondary mechanisms.
MarketsCryptoClimatePoliticsHealth - Nature News·3d ago
Giant cancer study reveals effectiveness of ‘off label’ treatments
Genomics-guided trial could increase options for people undergoing cancer therapy — plus, a landmark ancient-genome study reveals natural selection in hundreds of human genes. Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 15 April 2026
CryptoApplePoliticsHealth - Ars Science·3d ago
Physicists think they've resolved the proton size puzzle
subatomic size matters “We believe this is the final nail in the coffin of the proton radius puzzle.” Image of a hydrogen atom's electron orbitals...
ClimateHealth - Ars Science·3d ago
NASA chose the right crew to launch a new era of human space exploration
That just happened “It’s a special thing to be human, and it’s a special thing to be on planet Earth.” Christina Koch, Jeremy...
SpaceClimateHealth - Quanta Magazine·4d ago
The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived
Introduction The tipping point came in the summer of 2025. That July, several artificial intelligence models solved five out of six problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad, an...
AICryptoClimatePoliticsHealth - Ars Science·4d ago
To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain
Haven’t stopped worrying, don’t love the bomb LLM use is the most demoralizing problem I’ve faced as a college instructor. Credit: ...
AICryptoClimatePoliticsHealth - Ars Science·5d ago
Shock from Iran war has Trump's vision for US energy dominance flailing
Fossilized view of fuels Record domestic oil and gas production hasn’t saved US drivers from price spikes. In President Donald Trump’s telling, the United...
ClimatePoliticsHealth - Ars Science·1w ago
Four astronauts are back home after a daring ride around the Moon
Slamming into the atmosphere at more than 30 times the speed of sound, NASA’s Orion spacecraft blazed a trail over the Pacific Ocean on Friday, returning home with four astronauts and safely capping...
SpaceClimate - Ars Science·1w ago
New paper argues history, not mantle plume, powers Yellowstone
Gone but not forgotten A now-vanished plate under North America may open the crust below Yellowstone. Grand Prismatic Spring Yellowstone National...
- Ars Science·1w ago
"Oobleck" still holds some surprises
Mixing corn starch and water in appropriate amounts produces a slurry that is liquid when stirred slowly but hardens when you punch it—a substance colorfully dubbed “oobleck.” (The name derives from a 1949...
- Ars Science·1w ago
Oldest octopus fossil found to not be an octopus
oops Supposed “first octopus” was something else entirely. Credit: Nikos Stavrinidis / 500px / Getty...
AICryptoClimatePoliticsHealth - Quanta Magazine·1w ago
Why Do We Tell Ourselves Scary Stories About AI?
In fall 2024, the best-selling author and historian Yuval Noah Harari went on the talk show Morning Joe. “Let me tell you one small story,” he said. “When OpenAI developed GPT-4, they wanted to test what this...
AIMarketsSpaceClimatePoliticsHealth - Ars Science·1w ago
Orion helium leak no threat to Artemis II reentry but will require redesign
Vexing valves After leaks on Artemis I and II, Orion’s next flight to the Moon will need new valves. Orion's main engine and auxiliary thrusters,...
Space - Ars Science·1w ago
Clinical trial shows gene editing works for β-Thalassaemia, too
Ready for edits Improved gene editing process reactivates the fetal version of a hemoglobin gene. Almost as soon as researchers started exploring the...
ClimateHealth - Ars Science·1w ago
Ugandan chimps split into two factions, then killed rivals
Even those factors might not have been sufficient, but the authors also identified three possible catalysts. In 2014, five adult males and one adult female died of unknown causes, although several had shown...
- Ars Science·1w ago
The gravity of their experience hasn't quite set in for the Artemis II astronauts
From the heart “I’m actually getting chills right now just thinking about it. My palms are sweating.” A camera on one of the...
SpaceHealth - Ars Science·1w ago
Trump's emergency orders pushing coal power are "illegal" as well as dumb
Dirty policy making A World War II-era policy is stopping old coal plants from closing. At one time, the US electricity grid ran mostly on coal. But coal-fired...
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