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Tests of LLMs reveal that they can behave in deceptive and potentially harmful ways

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AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really?

Tests of large language models reveal that they can behave in deceptive and potentially harmful ways. What does this mean for the future?

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These intriguing materials - the world's most porous sponges - won today's Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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World’s most porous sponges: intricate carbon-trapping powders hit the market

Metal-organic frameworks were the next big thing in chemistry when they were invented more than three decades ago. Now, these intriguing materials are becoming commercial tools for capturing carbon dioxide and harvesting water from the air.

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BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”

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Nature research paper: Kirigami-inspired parachutes with programmable reconfiguration

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Kirigami-inspired parachutes with programmable reconfiguration - Nature

A thin planar disc designed with appropriately patterned cuts transforms itself, due to air flow effects, into an effective parachute exhibiting good positional stability, regardless of its initial orientation.

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The class of immune cells at the centre of Monday’s Nobel prize is showing promise as a treatment for autoimmune diseases, cancer and even organ transplants — but there are still key challenges to overcome before these cells can be used in therapies in the clinic.

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These immune cells won Nobel fame — can they solve autoimmune disease?

Regulatory T cells, which help to dampen inflammation, are being used in clinical trials against ailments such as rheumatoid arthritis.

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Nature @nature.com · 18h

Antimicrobial resistance is projected to cause 39 million deaths worldwide over the next 25 years

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The rise of ‘nightmare bacteria’: antimicrobial resistance in six charts

Data reveal how the global challenge to reduce deaths and infections from drug-resistant bacteria is not going according to plan.

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Nature @nature.com · 18h

The Physics Nobel goes to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis for a discovery that paved the way for quantum computers. Our reporters dive into the science

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It is time to sound the alarm as the EU’s research priorities face an unprecedented degree of political interference

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The EU’s Horizon research fund needs to stay a defence-free zone

It is time to sound the alarm as the EU’s research priorities face an unprecedented degree of political interference.

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Nature research paper: Dietary cysteine enhances intestinal stemness via CD8+ T cell-derived IL-22

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Dietary cysteine enhances intestinal stemness via CD8+ T cell-derived IL-22 - Nature

Dietary cysteine enhances intestinal stem cell-mediated intestinal repair following injury by promoting CD8 T cell-regenerative immune responses.

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It is time to recognize research software as a valuable scientific contribution in itself, beyond a tool — and to support it

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Stop treating code like an afterthought: record, share and value it

Scientists, research institutions, funders, libraries and publishers must all improve software practices.

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John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for demonstrating quantum physics on the macroscopic scale

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Groundbreaking quantum-tunnelling experiments win physics Nobel

John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis discovered quantum physics on a macroscopic scale, paving the way for quantum computing.

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Quantum tunnelling — when a particle skips through a barrier that classical physics would forbid — happens faster when objects have less energy

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‘Tour de force’ experiment probes quantum tunnelling in action

Probing photons inside a barrier also challenges a long-standing interpretation of quantum physics.

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Nature @nature.com · 1d

John M. Martinis, Michel H. Devoret & John Clarke recount the history of their milestone discovery, which today won the Nobel Prize in Physics

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Quantum Josephson junction circuits and the dawn of artificial atoms - Nature Physics

In 1985, experiments revealed the quantum behaviour of a macroscopic degree of freedom: the phase difference across a Josephson junction. The authors recount the history of this milestone for the development of superconducting quantum circuits.

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BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit"

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Medical specialists, wary of the guidance provided by Trump’s team, offer up their own advice independently of the government

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Volunteer scientists work ‘nights and weekends’ to guide vaccine advice in US

Medical specialists, wary of the guidance provided by Trump’s team, offer up their own advice independently of the government.

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Nature research paper: A new paradigm for outer membrane protein biogenesis in the Bacteroidota

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A new paradigm for outer membrane protein biogenesis in the Bacteroidota - Nature

Structural and biochemical studies of the β-barrel-assembly machinery from Flavobacterium johnsoniae reveal a subunit composition and assembly that are distinct from those of the canonical Escherichia coli complex.

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Nature research paper: Signal amplification in a solid-state sensor through asymmetric many-body echo

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Signal amplification in a solid-state sensor through asymmetric many-body echo - Nature

The experimental demonstration of many-body signal amplification in a solid-state, room-temperature quantum sensor is reported.

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This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists for discovering a class of immune cells that help to prevent the body from attacking its own tissues

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Medicine Nobel goes to scientists who revealed secrets of immune system ‘regulation’

Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi discovered cells that protect the body from autoimmune diseases.

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Environmental-humanities researcher Jenia Mukherjee uncovers the complex relationship between people, canals and wetlands in Kolkata, India

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Connecting the dots: I trace the history of the East Kolkata Wetlands

Environmental-humanities researcher Jenia Mukherjee uncovers the complex relationship between people, canals and wetlands in Kolkata, India.

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Nature @nature.com · 1d

Book review 📚 The cutting-edge medical approaches that could transform ageing

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The cutting-edge medical approaches that could transform ageing

An optimistic take on the state of the longevity field provides hope for treating a range of ageing-related diseases — but feels at odds with the current shape of US research.

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Nature @nature.com · 1d

What's one piece of advice you'd give to someone considering a PhD?

We asked 3785 doctoral candidates across 107 countries for their hard-won wisdom
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27 things we wish we’d known when we started our PhDs

Nature’s survey of PhD candidates reveals hard-won wisdom on choosing supervisors, managing mental health and surviving academic culture.

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A very hungry planet is gobbling up to 6 billion tonnes of gas and dust each second

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‘Rogue’ planet is fastest-growing ever observed

Cha 1107-7626 is devouring matter during its solo drift across the Galaxy.

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These studies report quantum-enhanced sensitivity in a solid-state system that can be operated at room temperature

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Quantum correlations enhance the sensitivity of room-temperature sensors

Quantum sensors based on diamond promise robustness but have limited sensitivity. Generating quantum correlations in the material might be a solution.

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Nature research paper: Heat-rechargeable computation in DNA logic circuits and neural networks

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Heat-rechargeable computation in DNA logic circuits and neural networks - Nature

Heat recharges enzyme-free DNA circuits, enabling complex logic operations and neural networks to perform multiple computations, offering a universal energy source for molecular machines and advancing autonomous behaviours in artificial chemical systems.

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This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists for discovering a class of immune cells that help to prevent the body from attacking its own tissues

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Medicine Nobel goes to scientists who revealed secrets of immune system ‘regulation’

Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi discovered cells that protect the body from autoimmune diseases.

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