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Chemistry Nobel for team who developed massively porous ‘super sponge’ materials Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi pioneered the creation of metal-organic frameworks, which can capture and store molecules such as carbon dioxide.

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi, who developed a class of extremely porous materials known as metal-organic frameworks, have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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Omg finally a MOFs Nobel - this is not a drill!!!

Groundbreaking quantum-tunnelling experiments win physics Nobel John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis discovered quantum physics on a macroscopic scale, paving the way for quantum computing.

Congratulations to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis!

Martinis told our reporter that his wife had gotten the news in the middle of the night — in California time — but decided not to wake him up quite yet.
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#Nobel2025

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Quantum Josephson junction circuits and the dawn of artificial atoms - Nature Physics In 1985, experiments revealed the quantum behaviour of a macroscopic degree of freedom: the phase difference across a Josephson junction. The authors recount the history of this milestone for the development of superconducting quantum circuits.

John M. Martinis, Michel H. Devoret & John Clarke recount the history of their milestone discovery, which today won the Nobel Prize in Physics

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Medicine Nobel goes to scientists who revealed secrets of immune system ‘regulation’ Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi discovered cells that protect the body from autoimmune diseases.

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists for discovering a class of immune cells that help to prevent the body from attacking its own tissues

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Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.

Jane Goodall challenged what it meant to be a scientist.

In this news story we look at three ways she changed science.

A loss for science, a loss for the community, a loss for everyone

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These alien planets are astronomers’ favourites: here’s why Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits.

Thirty years ago Monday, astronomers announced the first planet around a Sunlike star. Since then they have cataloged more than 6,000 alien worlds.

I asked a bunch of astronomers what their favorite exoplanet is, and wrote about it for @nature.com. What's yours?

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NEW: Nature trained AI to predict which NIH grants from 2014 would have been cut if the Trump admin had its way back then — and what science would have been lost to history.

"The results show the damage that cuts in funding can do to research, and the unpredictable nature of the research process."

The great university shake-up: four charts show how global higher education is changing More students than ever are studying across international borders, but where and what they learn is shifting.

Seismic shifts are afoot for universities in the US and worldwide. @dangaristo.bsky.social captures the trends in four telling graphics. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Shake it off’: Taylor Swift’s changing voice shows how our accents evolve An analysis of Swift’s interviews suggests her speech pattern has changed over her career.

“We cannot typically follow someone around with a microphone,” says audiologist Matthew Winn.

Enter Tay Tay.

@mohanabasu.bsky.social reports on the linguistics of #TaylorSwift for @nature.com 🧪

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Autism is on the rise: what’s really behind the increase? RFK Jr has vowed to find out what’s responsible, but scientists say he is ignoring answers from decades of research.

Now might be a good time to repost this story about what scientists actually know about the complex causes of autism, and what's behind the increasing prevalence.

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‘LinkedIn is like air to me’: the scientists who’ve cracked professional networking Fans of the global social-media platform explain how best to harness its career-boosting and collaboration potential.

Posting an article about LinkedIn on Bluesky feels a little strange, but I think this piece is useful for anyone who breaks out in a sweat at the thought of actively 'networking' for their career: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

World's first AI-designed viruses a step towards AI-generated life Scientists used AI to write coherent viral genomes, using them to synthesize bacteriophages capable of killing resistant strains of bacteria.

Scientists have created the first ever viruses designed by AI, and they’re capable of hunting down and killing strains of E. coli

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Tipsy bats and perfect pasta: Ig Nobels celebrate ‘improbable’ research The annual awards are a celebration of weird but thought-provoking science.

Highlights of this year’s Ig Nobel recipients include a nutrition prize for studying the preferred pizza toppings of rainbow lizards at a seaside resort in Togo

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Songs of the striped mouse show who’s friend and who’s foe Ultrasonic calls, too high for the human ear to detect, convey a wealth of information across the rodent’s territory.

In the African desert, wild mice ‘sing’ tunes that don’t travel far but help the animals to tell neighbours from strangers

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Research misconduct: how the scientific community is fighting back Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 08 September 2025

In this podcast mini-series 🔊 we explore why scientific misconduct happens and how to tackle it.

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Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility The rest of the world is not following the US government’s dangerous path, and will stick with the technology that helped the world out of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A technology that played a key part in saving millions of lives during the pandemic should be celebrated. Yet in the US, research into mRNA vaccines is being cut. While sadly not unexpected, it’s irresponsible as we argue in our editorial this week 🧪

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Summer 2025 is roasting hot: these charts show why it matters Data reveal how this year’s back-to-back heatwaves are affecting populations and economies across Europe.

The summer of 2025 is already shaping up to be a record-breaker

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OpenAI launches reasoning LLM that you can download and tweak One version of the gpt-oss large language model can run on a laptop, and performs nearly as well as the company’s most powerful models.

OpenAI's new open-weight #AI model looks to be a powerful reasoner. It's small enough to use locally and they've done loads to make it available.

But has it entered the game too late to become the go-to for researchers? Do ping me if you're trying it out!

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Alien planet glimpsed in star's 'habitable zone' A smudge of light spotted by the James Webb telescope near Alpha Centauri A could be the planet with the tightest orbit ever to be imaged directly.

New from Nature: “I had to take a moment of silence to appreciate what I was seeing.”

Astronomers reveal what could be the first ever image of a planet in its star’s habitable zone—and in the same star system as Avatar, no less

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Scientists can help stop a slide to nuclear war — don’t shut them out again It has taken the United Nations nearly 40 years to commission another study on the effects of nuclear conflict. Better late than never.

It has taken the United Nations nearly 40 years to commission another study on the effects of nuclear conflict. Better late than never

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Sexual harassment is rife at US Antarctic research bases, fresh survey finds More than two-thirds of people polled had witnessed sexual harassment or assault on the ice.

We've been waiting for this report from NSF for many months — results of a survey on sexual harassment at US Antarctic stations. The numbers aren't good, but at least this problem is out in the open & starting to be tackled. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

DeepMind and OpenAI models solve maths problems at level of top students For the first time, large language models performed on a par with gold medallists in the International Mathematical Olympiad.

Until just months ago, mathematicians didn't see LLMs as a promising way of doing math. Now the chatbots are beating 'neurosymbolic AI' and even most humans — at least when it comes to solving (very hard) high-school competition problems
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Help save 2 million lives: close the vaccine funding gap Gavi, the vaccine provider for the world’s poorest people, needs an extra US$3 billion to protect infants and other vulnerable groups. More donors must step up.

Gavi, the vaccine provider for the world’s poorest people, is celebrating its 25th birthday. It also needs an extra US$3 billion to protect infants and other vulnerable groups. More donors must step up.
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Meet the biotech-company founders driven by their child’s rare disease For some parents, finding a cure for their child’s illness is the ultimate motivation to start a company.

These parents wanted to find a cure for their kids, so they started up biotech firms to address their diseases. As reported by @rachelbrazil.bsky.social.

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Do academics publish less after getting tenured? Depends on your field Paper output varies between disciplines, as does the trend after tenure is achieved.

There's an large uptick in papers published in the year before researchers attain tenure, a new analysis shows.

From there it diverges: those in fields that have labs (eg biology, chemistry) keep churning papers, while those that aren't (eg sociology, math) see a decline in papers.

The breakthrough proof bringing mathematics closer to a grand unified theory Nature - The Langlands programme has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up new worlds for them to explore.

One of the biggest stories in science is quietly playing out in the world of abstract mathematics

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‘Another DeepSeek moment’: Chinese AI model Kimi K2 stirs excitement The latest version of the chatbot, developed by start-up Moonshot AI, is open for researchers to build on.

Meet Kimi K2 from Beijing-based Moonlight AI. Good at coding, writing & multi-tool tasks, reports say it's the best open model available.

It looks like #DeepSeek wasn't an anomaly. Sources said to expect more cutting-edge & free models from Chinese firms soon 🤖🧪

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YouTube video by Nature Podcast Could hidden AI prompts game peer review?

Some researchers are putting stealth AI prompts into their papers to game peer review! @lizziegibney.bsky.social and @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social have the story youtube.com/shorts/WvamK...