Tag Archives: Nature Magazine

Magazines, Podcasts, Previews, Research, Reviews, Science

Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Feb 29, 2024

Leave a comment

 and Bo Xia

Volume 626 Issue 8001

Nature Magazine – February 28, 2024: The latest issue cover features ‘Tale of the Tails’ – How a genetic element aided tail loss in humans and apes; RNA-editing therapies for genetic diseases have in the past few months gained approval for clinical trials, raising hopes for safer treatments…

Move over, CRISPR: RNA-editing therapies pick up steam

Two RNA-editing therapies for genetic diseases have in the past few months gained approval for clinical trials, raising hopes for safer treatments.

200 years of naming dinosaurs: scientists call for overhaul of antiquated system

Some palaeontologists want more rigorous guidelines for naming species, along with action to address problematic historical practices.

MEGA-CRISPR tool gives a power boost to cancer-fighting cells

A system that edits RNA rather than DNA can give new life to exhausted CAR T cells.

Magazines, Podcasts, Previews, Research, Reviews, Science

Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Feb 22, 2024

Leave a comment
Volume 626 Issue 8000

Nature Magazine – February 21, 2024: The latest issue cover features ‘Smoke Alarm’ – How smoking alters the immune response even years after quitting…

Great ‘Stone Age’ wall discovered in Baltic Sea

Megastructure stretching nearly 1 kilometre long is probably one of the oldest known hunting aids on Earth.

The immune markers that predict who can keep SARS-CoV-2 in check

People infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 cleared the virus more quickly if they had high levels of certain immune cells.

Introducing meat–rice: grain with added muscles beefs up protein

The laboratory-grown food uses rice as a scaffold for cultured meat.

Magazines, Podcasts, Previews, Research, Reviews, Science

Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Feb 15, 2024

Leave a comment
Image

Nature Magazine – February 14, 2024: The latest issue cover climate and land-use stresses could push the rainforest past a tipping point as early as 2050. The researchers probed five causes of water stress — global warming, annual rainfall, seasonal intensity of rainfall, length of the dry season and deforestation — using palaeorecords,  climate models and observational data.

First passages of rolled-up Herculaneum scroll revealed

Researchers used artificial intelligence to decipher the text of 2,000-year-old charred papyrus scripts, unveiling musings on music and capers.

Deepfakes, trolls and cybertroopers: how social media could sway elections in 2024

Faced with data restrictions and harassment, researchers are mapping out fresh approaches to studying social media’s political reach.

Magazines, Podcasts, Previews, Research, Reviews, Science

Research Preview: Nature Magazine- February 8, 2024

Leave a comment
Volume 626 Issue 7998

Nature Magazine – February 7, 2024: The latest issue cover features ‘Dead Reckoning’ – Mass predator die-offs exert a hidden effect on lake ecosystems…

Surprise find: a blood-based immune system is discovered in the gut

Immune guardians called complement proteins are manufactured by gut cells and help to protect against pathogens.

Black-hole observations solve cosmic-ray mystery

Data from an African observatory show that jets from a collapsed star are capable of producing some of the Galaxy’s fastest particles.

Obesity drugs have another superpower: taming inflammation

The blockbuster medications that reduce body weight also reduce inflammation in organs such as the brain, raising hopes that they can treat Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases.

Magazines, Podcasts, Previews, Research, Reviews, Science

Research Preview: Nature Magazine- February 1, 2024

Leave a comment

/Minden Pictures

Volume 626 Issue 7997

Nature Magazine – January 31, 2024: The latest issue cover features ‘Significant Otters’ – How restored top predators helped slow down coastal damage; Hijacked neurons boost cancer’s ability to grow and spread; Mechanical process yields flexible fibers for wearable electronics…

How does chronic stress harm the gut? New clues emerge

A bacterium in the intestines of stressed mice interferes with cells that protect against pathogens.

How cancer hijacks the nervous system to grow and spread

A new wave of research is unpicking the relationship between cancer and neurons — and looking for ways to stop the crosstalk.

The clever system that gave Roman wines an amber colour and nutty aroma

Wine-fermentation jars used in Georgia today hint at the properties of ancient vintages.

Magazines, Podcasts, Previews, Research, Reviews, Science

Research Preview: Nature Magazine- January 25, 2024

Leave a comment
Volume 625 Issue 7996

Nature Magazine – January 24, 2024: The latest issue cover features ‘Brain Drain’ – A hub for the outflow of Cerebrospinal Fluid…

A quantum fix makes e-commerce more tamper-resistant

Light pulses with specific quantum properties could be harnessed to send digital ‘contracts’ between buyer and seller.

How an exercise habit paves the way for injured muscles to heal

Mice that work out regularly have higher levels of a molecule that promotes muscle regeneration than sedentary mice do.

Flexible geothermal power makes it easier to harness Earth’s inner heat

Next-generation plants that respond to demand could be key to making a low-carbon energy source more economically appealing.

Magazines, Podcasts, Previews, Research, Reviews, Science

Research Preview: Nature Magazine- January 18, 2024

Leave a comment
Volume 625 Issue 7995

Nature Magazine – January 17, 2024: The latest issue cover features the giant ape Gigantopithecus blacki, thought to be the largest primate that ever lived, which lived in China between 2 million and 300,000 years ago.

Why the immune response to a vaccine varies from person to person

A dormant immune system before receiving the BCG vaccine is tied to a greater innate immune response afterwards.

The Higgs boson is caught in a singular transformation

Detectors at the Large Hadron Collider spot the famed particle decaying into a photon and a ‘Z boson’.

Magazines, Podcasts, Previews, Research, Reviews, Science

Research Preview: Nature Magazine January 11, 2024

Leave a comment
Volume 625 Issue 7994

Nature Magazine – January 10, 2024: The latest issue cover features ‘Steppe Change’ – Migration and lifestyle shifts in prehistoric Eurasia linked to raised genetic risk of multiple sclerosis.

Cancer-fighting CAR T cells could be made inside body with viral injection

Scientists are devising ways to edit the genomes of immune cells without having to extract them from the people being treated.

Japan earthquakes: the science behind the deadly tremors

A massive quake that triggered tsunamis, fires and multiple aftershocks was the largest on the country’s west coast in more than a century.

Boosting microbiome science worldwide could save millions of children’s lives

Studies of the microbes living on and in our bodies are conducted mainly in a few rich countries, squandering opportunities to improve the health of people globally.

Magazines, Podcasts, Previews, Research, Reviews, Science

Research Preview: Nature Magazine January 4, 2024

Leave a comment
Volume 625 Issue 7993

Nature Magazine – January 3, 2024: The latest issue cover features  an artist’s impression of a massive young star in the process of forming.

US nuclear-fusion lab enters new era: achieving ‘ignition’ over and over

NIF beamlines entering the lower hemisphere of the NIF Target Chamber, as seen from the ground floor of the Target Bay.

Researchers at the National Ignition Facility are consistently creating reactions that make more energy than they consume.

By Jeff Tollefson

In December 2022, after more than a decade of effort and frustration, scientists at the US National Ignition Facility (NIF) announced that they had set a world record by producing a fusion reaction that released more energy than it consumed — a phenomenon known as ignition. They have now proved that the feat was no accident by replicating it again and again, and the administration of US President Joe Biden is looking to build on this success by establishing a trio of US research centres to help advance the science.

DeepMind AI outdoes human mathematicians on unsolved problem

A player holds a hand of Set game cards over a green table.

Large language model improves on efforts to solve combinatorics problems inspired by the card game Set.

Davide Castelvecchi

The card game Set has long inspired mathematicians to create interesting problems.

Now, a technique based on large language models (LLMs) is showing that artificial intelligence (AI) can help mathematicians to generate new solutions.

Green Energy, Magazines, Podcasts, Reviews, Science, Technology

Nature Magazine Podcast: ‘A New Kind Of Solar Cell’

Leave a comment

nature podcasts (December 29, 2023) – A new kind of solar cell is coming: is it the future of green energy? Firms commercializing perovskite–silicon ‘tandem’ photovoltaics say that the panels will be more efficient and could lead to cheaper electricity.

Rooftop Solar Energy Facility In Yongzhou, China.

On the outskirts of Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany, nestled among car dealerships and hardware shops, sits a two-storey factory stuffed with solar-power secrets. It’s here where UK firm Oxford PV is producing commercial solar cells using perovskites: cheap, abundant photovoltaic (PV) materials that some have hailed as the future of green energy. Surrounded by unkempt grass and a weed-strewn car park, the factory is a modest cradle for such a potentially transformative technology, but the firm’s chief technology officer Chris Case is clearly in love with the place. “This is the culmination of my dreams,” he says.