As a postdoctoral researcher, Jennifer Rabin spent her days studying how risk factors for heart disease corresponded to the chance of developing Alzheimer’s disease. In 2019, shortly after she…
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Genetically modified pig liver keeps man alive until human organ transplant
A medical team at Xijing Hospital of the Air Force Medical University in Xi’an, China, surgically connected a man with liver failure to an external, genetically modified pig liver. Credit: Xinhua via Alamy
A 56-year-old man with liver failure…
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Modelling the cosmos and imagining a future without meat: Books in brief
The AI Paradox
Virginia Dignum Princeton Univ. Press (2026)
Some leading thinkers on artificial intelligence regard AI models as neither artificial nor intelligent. Virginia Dignum — who has contributed to AI initiatives for organizations such…
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What a viral TikTok taught me about personal storytelling in science
In October last year, psychology student Jazz Nuku posted a video to the social-media platform TikTok explaining the overlap that she had observed between evolution, physics, psychology, religion and the perception of reality.Credit: Jazz Nuku,…
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Briefing chat: What Galileo’s scribbled margin notes reveal about his scientific journey
Nature, Published online: 06 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00759-7
Nature staff discuss some of the week’s top science news.
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Peanut-processing microbes ward off dangerous allergic shock
Nature, Published online: 06 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00668-9
Scientists identify bacteria that digest allergy-triggering compounds in peanuts, which can be life-threatening to those with allergies.
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Electric-vehicle batteries toughen up to beat the heat
Nature, Published online: 06 March 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00670-1
Rising temperatures shorten battery life, but devices are improving fast enough to resist the ravages of climate change.
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Celebrate women in research and the networks that sustain them
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Climate change is speeding up — the pace nearly doubled in ten years
The past three years have been the warmest recorded on Earth.Credit: Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times via Getty
The rate of global warming has surged since 2015 and is now nearly double what it was in the 1970s, according to a study1 that tackles one of…
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How koalas escaped a genetic bottleneck
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