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A paper in Nature presents evidence of lightning on Mars, detected in sounds and electrical signals captured by NASA’s P...
27/11/2025

A paper in Nature presents evidence of lightning on Mars, detected in sounds and electrical signals captured by NASA’s Perseverance rove. The observations indicate that Mars’s atmosphere is electrically active, which may have implications for future exploration.

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A paper in Nature reports on the origins, social structure, and cultural practices of the people of Shimao, a 4,000-year...
27/11/2025

A paper in Nature reports on the origins, social structure, and cultural practices of the people of Shimao, a 4,000-year-old walled city in northern China. The study indicates that the populations had genetic ties to settlements to the south of the city. There also is evidence that there may have been male mass burials linked to human sacrifice practices.

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A paper in npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine examines the economic impacts of long COVID, which are estimated at an ...
27/11/2025

A paper in npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine examines the economic impacts of long COVID, which are estimated at an average annual burden of $1 trillion globally and $9,000 per patient in the US. Annual lost earnings in the US alone are estimated at approximately $170 billion.

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A paper in Nature shows that a 3.4-million-year-old partial foot found in Ethiopia in 2009 belongs to an ancient human r...
26/11/2025

A paper in Nature shows that a 3.4-million-year-old partial foot found in Ethiopia in 2009 belongs to an ancient human relative named Australopithecus deyiremeda, a more primitive species of Australopithecus than the famous ‘Lucy’ (A. afarensis).

The discovery solves a long running mystery but also offers new insights into the lifestyles of ancient hominins living in eastern Africa around 3 to 4 million years ago.

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A paper in Nature Genetics presents popEVE, a proteome-wide deep generative model to identify and predict pathogenicity ...
26/11/2025

A paper in Nature Genetics presents popEVE, a proteome-wide deep generative model to identify and predict pathogenicity of missense mutations causing genetic disorders.

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A Review in Nature Reviews Psychology proposes that understanding violent extremism requires integration of trait-descri...
26/11/2025

A Review in Nature Reviews Psychology proposes that understanding violent extremism requires integration of trait-descriptive models with process-oriented frameworks that outline mechanisms in social reactivity, needs and mindsets that make some people more at risk for engaging in violent extremism.

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Research in Nature Communications suggests that Atlantic grey seal milk rivals human breast milk in sugar complexity. Th...
25/11/2025

Research in Nature Communications suggests that Atlantic grey seal milk rivals human breast milk in sugar complexity. These findings challenge the previously held assumption that human milk is uniquely complex amongst mammals.

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The authors of a Comment article in Nature discuss Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT), a tool for clarifying the roles o...
25/11/2025

The authors of a Comment article in Nature discuss Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT), a tool for clarifying the roles of each author of a research paper and call for CRediT to become the norm, to support researchers and research integrity across the whole academic landscape.

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Covid-19 has been linked to cardiovascular complications, but the long-term impacts, particularly for mild infections, a...
25/11/2025

Covid-19 has been linked to cardiovascular complications, but the long-term impacts, particularly for mild infections, are not well understood. A study in Nature Communications demonstrate an increased risk of cardiovascular disease after Covid-19, also among mild cases.

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Ice shell thinning on small icy satellites in the outer Solar System can cause subsurface oceans to boil, according to a...
24/11/2025

Ice shell thinning on small icy satellites in the outer Solar System can cause subsurface oceans to boil, according to a study in Nature Astronomy. This process may help to explain surface features and geological activity on moons such as Saturn’s Mimas and Enceladus, and Uranus’s Miranda, and could influence future exploration strategies for ocean worlds.

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Google DeepMind was created to use AI for world-changing science and achieved that with AlphaFold. Nature reports on how...
24/11/2025

Google DeepMind was created to use AI for world-changing science and achieved that with AlphaFold. Nature reports on how the advent of large language models has raised questions about DeepMind’s future and whether it can achieve blockbuster successes in other fields of science.

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A paper in Nature Communications defines Long COVID trajectories using data from a prospective cohort study in the US in...
24/11/2025

A paper in Nature Communications defines Long COVID trajectories using data from a prospective cohort study in the US involving symptom questionnaires from acute infection up to 15 months.

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