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theoretical chemist who first simulated proteins using molecular dynamics
Credit: Cyril Frésillon/CNRS Photothèque Martin Karplus was a theoretical chemist who set out to explore the fundamentals of his subject,…
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Pictograms, comics and other illustrations: Books in brief
What the Body Knows John Trowsdale Yale Univ. Press (2024) To understand the body, “we might picture the heart as…
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‘WithdrarXiv’ database of 14,000 retracted preprints launches
Thousands of preprints have been withdrawn from the arXiv preprint server because of factual or methodological errors.Credit: Ralf Geithe/Getty Researchers…
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Of your own device
Walls. Thick, dark, stone walls. Ben couldn’t recall how long he’d been here. There was nothing to help him keep…
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Digital origins for ancient digits
Nature, Published online: 23 December 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-04123-5 Pupil contractions in a talking parrot, and how ancient numerals were derived from…
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‘there’s so much bad fiction about anthropomorphizing AI’
As climate change and artificial intelligence (AI) reshape the world, some say that reality is starting to look a lot…
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The revolutionary economist who became the unlikely leader of Bangladesh
Nature, Published online: 09 December 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03896-z Muhammad Yunus is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped…
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how consciousness changes the world
Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World Peter Godfrey-Smith William Collins (2024) Access the most…
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I fled the war in Ukraine. Now I work on ways to help the country’s soil heal
Olena Melnyk at the Salisbury Plain military training area, UK, testing a soil-sampling protocol for use in bomb craters.Credit: Mark…
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First rocks returned from Moon’s far side reveal ancient volcanic activity
Researchers have had their first-ever look at samples brought back from the Moon’s far side — and they detail a…
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