nature Magazine – August 10, 2023 issue: Algorithm designs 3D shapes to follow specific pathways; Why Indigenous youth need a voice in the climate debate; DNA leaks linked to inflammageing in the brains of mice; JWST spots what could be a quasar from the early Universe….

JWST spots what could be a quasar from the early Universe

The object’s deep red colour suggests it existed when the Universe was less than 700 million years old.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has seen what is probably a quasar from the early Universe¹.

ChatGPT-like AIs are coming to major science search engines

The Scopus, Dimensions and Web of Science databases are introducing conversational AI search.

The conversational AI-powered chatbots that have come to Internet search engines, such as Google’s Bard and Microsoft’s Bing, look increasingly set to change scientific search, too. On 1 August, Dutch publishing giant Elsevier released a ChatGPT-like artificial-intelligence (AI) interface for some users of its Scopus database, and British firm Digital Science announced a closed trial of an AI large language model (LLM) assistant for its Dimensions database. Meanwhile, US firm Clarivate says it’s working on bringing LLMs to its Web of Science database.