Hair samples preserved in family scrapbooks across the past century have revealed the success of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) efforts to crack down on lead pollution since the 1970s.
Policies to phase out lead from products…
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Sex in space is happening, moving from theory to urgent reality
As spaceflight shifts from rare government missions to something closer to routine travel and work, one awkward question is getting harder to ignore: what happens to human reproductive health away from Earth?
A new report argues this isn’t…
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US grant applicants surge at prestigious European research agency
Money could become harder to come by for European scientists if the overall European Research Council pot does not dramatically increase.Credit: Ulrich Baumgarten via Getty
The number of US-based researchers applying to prestigious grants that…
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OpenClaw AI chatbots are running amok — these scientists are listening in
OpenClaw is an open-source artificial-intelligence agent designed to assist users with everyday tasks, such as sending e-mails and managing their calendars.Credit: Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty
The sudden rise of a huge network…
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Measles is raging worldwide: are you at risk?
Health-care workers who have never treated someone with measles are having to become familiar with signs of the disease. Credit: Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto/Getty
Measles has been so rare in many countries that some physicians have never seen a case…
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Epstein files reveal deeper ties to scientists than previously known
Financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had a strong interest in science, maintaining close contact with a number of researchers.Credit: Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty
Newly released files from the investigation of convicted sex offender…
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Author Correction: Environmentally driven immune imprinting protects against allergy
Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate…
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‘We need to dismantle the stigma of alcohol dependence in academia’
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Hello, I’m Adam Levy, and this is Off Limits: Academia’s Taboos, a podcast from Nature Careers.
In this episode: alcohol.
Alcohol and academia have a complex relationship. On the one hand, in many countries and contexts,…
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Cheap AI chatbots transform medical diagnoses in places with limited care
LLMs greatly improved physicians’ diagnostic accuracy.Credit: Rizwan Tabassum/AFP via Getty
Large language models (LLMs) can pass postgraduate medical examinations and help clinicians to make diagnoses, at least in controlled benchmarking tests….
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Super-sniffer aeroplane finds oil fields’ hidden emissions
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Airborne sensor shows that methane emissions from…
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