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A new high resolution digital dataset and map — named Itiner-e — of roads throughout the Roman Empire around the year 15...
06/11/2025

A new high resolution digital dataset and map — named Itiner-e — of roads throughout the Roman Empire around the year 150 CE is presented in research published in Scientific Data. The findings increase the known length of the Empire’s road system by over 100,000 kilometres.

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A study in Nature Communications finds that relative abundances of stress-sensitive gastrointestinal microbes at 2 years...
06/11/2025

A study in Nature Communications finds that relative abundances of stress-sensitive gastrointestinal microbes at 2 years old predicts internalizing symptoms, such as depression and anxiety, in middle childhood through altered emotion-related brain network connectivity.

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A paper in Nature presents a database of more than 10,000 human images to evaluate biases in artificial intelligence mod...
06/11/2025

A paper in Nature presents a database of more than 10,000 human images to evaluate biases in artificial intelligence models for human-centric computer vision, called the Fair Human-Centric Image Benchmark (FHIBE) and was developed by Sony AI.

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A paper in Nature Astronomy reports an extreme flare seen from a supermassive black hole that is 30 times brighter than ...
06/11/2025

A paper in Nature Astronomy reports an extreme flare seen from a supermassive black hole that is 30 times brighter than similar events and was first detected in 2018. The most likely cause is the shredding of a star of 30 solar masses or more.

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Draft atlases of the developing brain of humans and other mammals are presented in a collection of papers from the BRAIN...
05/11/2025

Draft atlases of the developing brain of humans and other mammals are presented in a collection of papers from the BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN), published in Nature.

These resources combine single-cell and spatial technologies to track how brain cell types emerge, diversify, and organize during development, offering insights into the origins of certain neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions.

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Polymer-coated liposomes specifically target and deliver interleukin-12 to metastatic ovarian cancer, strongly sensitizi...
05/11/2025

Polymer-coated liposomes specifically target and deliver interleukin-12 to metastatic ovarian cancer, strongly sensitizing the tumours to combination therapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors, according to a paper in Nature Materials.

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A study in Nature Communications provides insights into the genetic basis of obesity and its related comorbidities acros...
05/11/2025

A study in Nature Communications provides insights into the genetic basis of obesity and its related comorbidities across ancestries and ascertainments.

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05/11/2025

More than 40% of existing and planned offshore wind farm sites in Europe and Asia are being exposed to wind speeds above the maximum design load of some classes of turbine, according to a study in Nature Communications.

These findings underscore the critical need to adapt offshore wind energy infrastructure to withstand evolving wind extremes.

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A previously uncharacterized microbial enzyme is responsible for the production of molecular hydrogen in the gut, which ...
04/11/2025

A previously uncharacterized microbial enzyme is responsible for the production of molecular hydrogen in the gut, which drives the growth of other bacteria and has implications for human health, according to a paper in Nature Microbiology.

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Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders affect one in five women during pregnancy and up to one year postpartum. A Review i...
04/11/2025

Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders affect one in five women during pregnancy and up to one year postpartum. A Review in Nature Reviews Psychology provides an overview of evidence-based psychotherapies for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders and describes their underlying mechanisms.

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In a Comment article for Nature, Vinay K. Chaudhri proposes an evolved ‘Turing test’ for artificial intelligence that as...
04/11/2025

In a Comment article for Nature, Vinay K. Chaudhri proposes an evolved ‘Turing test’ for artificial intelligence that asks an AI tool to convince a specialist that it has general-purpose knowledge like a human.

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04/11/2025

The Hektoria Glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula retreated by at least 8 km in two months, a rate nearly 10 times faster than previously measured for a grounded glacier, according to a study in Nature Geoscience. This record-breaking retreat may be explained by a minimally studied glacier destabilisation process that could occur in similar settings.

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