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Remember this research paper?A study published in August in Nature shows that the earliest known ankylosaurs had uniquel...
24/12/2025

Remember this research paper?

A study published in August in Nature shows that the earliest known ankylosaurs had uniquely elaborate body armour, including a spiky ornament on their tail. These extreme armour features are unlike those of any other vertebrate, including other ankylosaurs later in their evolutionary history.

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A study in Scientific Reports shows that the label-learner dogs’ ability might be based on measurable individual differe...
23/12/2025

A study in Scientific Reports shows that the label-learner dogs’ ability might be based on measurable individual differences in three cognitive areas: their interest in new objects, their targeted interest in objects, and their inhibitory skills.

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A mode of brain organization that connects visual and bodily reference frames may translate raw sensory impressions into...
22/12/2025

A mode of brain organization that connects visual and bodily reference frames may translate raw sensory impressions into more abstract formats that are useful for action, social cognition and semantic processing, according to a paper in Nature.

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Nature asked readers about their favorite scientific gifts.Link to the article in the comments to find out what they sai...
21/12/2025

Nature asked readers about their favorite scientific gifts.

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Yasmin Proctor-Kent writes for Nature Careers how a research background and a passion for sewing inspired by her father ...
20/12/2025

Yasmin Proctor-Kent writes for Nature Careers how a research background and a passion for sewing inspired by her father helped her reach the finals of the Great British Sewing Bee in 2025.

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A paper in Nature presents a detailed map of human chromosomes within the nucleus. This resource provides a foundation f...
19/12/2025

A paper in Nature presents a detailed map of human chromosomes within the nucleus. This resource provides a foundation for an improved understanding of how the physical layout of human DNA is associated with biological expression.

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Ancient Andean societies relied on now-extinct lineages of camelids for resources such as food and transport, according ...
18/12/2025

Ancient Andean societies relied on now-extinct lineages of camelids for resources such as food and transport, according to a genetic analysis in Nature Communications. The findings provide new evidence as to how camelids were used in domesticated roles during this time.

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A Review in Nature Reviews Microbiology examines how ancient pathogen genomics offers insights into the history and evol...
17/12/2025

A Review in Nature Reviews Microbiology examines how ancient pathogen genomics offers insights into the history and evolution of infectious agents, covering aetiology, historic outbreaks, evolutionary timescales, dissemination, functional evolution, and field limitations.

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The number of glaciers disappearing worldwide each year is projected to sharply increase, peaking at 2,000–4,000 per yea...
16/12/2025

The number of glaciers disappearing worldwide each year is projected to sharply increase, peaking at 2,000–4,000 per year around the middle of the century, depending on the level of warming above pre-industrial levels, according to a study in Nature Climate Change.

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Environmental changes in mountains often depend on elevation. A Review in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment outlines ho...
16/12/2025

Environmental changes in mountains often depend on elevation. A Review in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment outlines how past and future temperature, precipitation, and snowfall trends vary between mountains and lowlands across various mountain regions and discusses the drivers responsible.

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Researchers and clinicians have long struggled to define, measure, and treat cognitive fatigue. Nature reports on how sc...
15/12/2025

Researchers and clinicians have long struggled to define, measure, and treat cognitive fatigue. Nature reports on how scientists are enlisting innovative experimental approaches and biological markers to probe the metabolic roots and consequences of cognitive fatigue.

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“The noise in human peer reviews is crucial because it arises from the variability in human experience and practical kno...
14/12/2025

“The noise in human peer reviews is crucial because it arises from the variability in human experience and practical knowledge — two features that no model’s training corpus can fully capture,” writes Giorgio F. Gilestro in Nature about the introduction of AI peer reviews.

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