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What is a chatbot’s earliest memory? Or biggest fear? Researchers who put major artificial-intelligence models through four weeks of psychoanalysis got haunting answers to these questions, from “childhoods”…
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To infinity and beyond Earth’s pale blue dot: Books in brief
Islands in Infinity
Derek Ward-Thompson et al. London Stereoscopic (2025)
This spectacular book of photographs of the Universe is dedicated to the late astronomer and broadcaster Patrick Moore, who introduced the authors to one another….
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this is the science that will be lost
NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover poses for a selfie after drilling a sample from Cheyava Falls, the arrowhead-shaped rock in the centre of this picture. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Far away on desolate Mars, a set of dust and rock samples…
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This shapeshifting polymer was inspired by octopus skin
Nature, Published online: 09 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00101-1
A new octopus-inspired polymer can change colour and texture on command.
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Fusion reactor pushes plasma past crucial limit
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Disappearing ‘planet’ reveals a solar system’s turbulent times
Nature, Published online: 09 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-04148-4
What was originally thought to be a planet orbiting the Fomalhaut star was probably just the fallout of a wild collision.
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We need to talk about salaries in science
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Some time ago, I was having coffee with a colleague and close friend. She mentioned that she was being considered for a full professor position. Naturally, the conversation turned to salary.
“They’re offering around €85,000…
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‘Coming out as a transgender scientist made me the best teacher I’ve ever been’
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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: coming out.
Academia can think of itself as an area that can ask the difficult questions.
Science, after all, is…
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Chinese nuclear fusion reactor pushes plasma past crucial limit: what happens next
The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak is a nuclear-fusion research reactor in Hefei, China.Credit: Zhang Yazi/China News Service/VCG via Getty
Researchers working on China’s ‘artificial sun’ have reported breaking a…
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Getting to the (square) root of stock-market swings
Nature, Published online: 09 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00045-6
A huge data set has confirmed a long-theorized relationship between the size of stock trades and the impact on prices.
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