A new Nature news feature by Miryam Naddaf looks at a simple question that turns out to be anything but simple: where are people moving, and how much has that changed since 2000? The answer, according to newly assembled maps and analyses, is that human migration has surged - and the patterns are...
A journal club in the AI age is less like following a recipe and more like discovering your oven has started suggesting substitutions while quietly inventing paprika.
Roses are red, tumors play chess, your pee may be sending progress reports, I guess.
A lot of cancer care depends on someone being available to look, listen, scan, biopsy, diagnose, treat, follow up, and keep the whole thing from turning into paperwork soup.
Breaking news from the cholesterol kingdom: after 25 years of skirmishes, healers now have more than statins in the armory, and the old villain LDL is finally surrounded.
Remember when "touch grass" became the internet's favorite insult? Turns out if you actually do touch grass - and then keep going a few inches underground - you run into one of the biggest biological cable systems on Earth. Not fiber optic. Fungal. Specifically, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, the...
ADAPT-CEC probably walked into the cardiovascular trial gym feeling pretty good about its form, then immediately got handed a new workout plan: “Nice myocardial infarction reps, champ. Now adapt to bleeding and cardiovascular death after seeing only 20 examples per endpoint.”
“Multiomics- and artificial intelligence-powered research platforms for enhancing understanding and prediction of the cholangiocarcinoma patient journey” is a lot of words doing a lot of cardio. Plain English version: researchers want to combine many kinds of biological data with machine learning...
Not with magic, sadly. With neural fields and resistive memory, which sounds like a prog-rock album but is actually a pretty sharp answer to a very real problem: how do you rebuild complicated signals from only a few measurements without setting your power budget on fire?
You have probably had that moment in a clinic where everyone is waiting on one more test, and the clock suddenly feels louder than the room.
Back in my day, if you wanted to design an electromagnetic device, you picked a shape, ran a simulation, squinted at the results, changed the shape, ran it again, and repeated until your coffee became a legally recognized co-author. This new paper by Dong and colleagues asks a much cheekier...
Ant colonies do something weirdly beautiful: no single ant understands the whole mission, yet the colony somehow finds snacks, builds tunnels, and runs a logistics department with six legs and zero spreadsheets. Mechanoluminescent materials have a similar vibe. Press one tiny part of a crystal, and...
Confession: when I first read the title of this paper, my brain did a tiny cymbal crash and whispered, "That is either brilliant or someone let a grant proposal drink espresso." Neural networks, real-time plasma imaging, inverse-designed fabrication, ultrafast lasers - it sounds like four different...
The old approach was the leaky roof: cancer nanomedicine kept looking brilliant in preclinical models, then dripping disappointment when the weather turned into actual patients; this paper is the fix, or at least the contractor with a moisture meter and a suspiciously expensive van.
Inside a cancer genomics lab at 2 a.m., a sequencer is humming, a freezer is judging everyone silently, and a researcher is trying to figure out why two patients with the same diagnosis respond to the same drug like they are in completely different Netflix shows.
What if a sci-fi medical scanner could listen to the bacteria in your gut, spot the microbial players freelancing out of position, and help doctors draw up a precision treatment plan before the disease even gets comfortable on the couch?
Danilo Bzdok gave Neuron an interview about research habits. That sounds modest, like a calendar invite with free coffee, until you realize the habit he wants to change is basically how neuroscience organizes reality.
Before this review, lithium-oxygen battery catalysts looked like a crowded buffet of promising ingredients; after it, they look more like a tasting menu with an AI sommelier whispering, “Maybe stop adding ruthenium to everything and check the structure-activity notes.”
Plant a seed, prune the weird branches, wait for something useful to bloom, and maybe one day your jacket stops being dead fabric and starts acting like a tiny, washable sensor network with better situational awareness than half the devices in your drawer.
Swap one herb in a recipe and dinner gets brighter; swap the wrong one and suddenly everyone is politely “not that hungry.” Su and colleagues basically ran that kitchen experiment at molecular scale, except the dish was an artificial oxidase, the seasoning was amino acids, and the chef was an...