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How I’m supporting other researchers who have moved to Lithuania Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-01
Biochemist Stephen Knox Jones chose a role in the Baltic country over other faculty positions in Denmark and the United States. He explains why.
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Chinese virologist who was first to share COVID genome sleeps on street after lab shuts Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-01
Zhang Yongzhen shared the genomic sequence of SARS-CoV-2 with the world, speeding the development of vaccines.
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Plagiarism in peer-review reports could be the ‘tip of the iceberg’ Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-01
Researchers say swathe of copied text could indicate a widespread problem.
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Scientists tried to give people COVID — and failed Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-01
Researchers deliberately infect participants with SARS-CoV-2 in ‘challenge’ trials — but high levels of immunity complicate efforts to test vaccines and treatments.
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I fell out of love with the lab, and in love with business Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-01
The COVID-19 pandemic changed Karolina Makovskytė’s career ambitions, propelling her to a business development role in her home nation of Lithuania.
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How to meet Africa’s grand challenges with African know-how Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-01
Simple measures to strengthen the interface between science, policy and society in African nations could help the continent leapfrog others in sustainable innovation and development.
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How bioinformatics led one scientist home to Lithuania Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-01
Juozas Gordevičius founded a data-science company in the United States before returning to Vilnius.
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A snapshot of Lithuania’s life-sciences landscape Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-01
Nature examines the Baltic country’s research ambitions as it marks 20 years of European Union membership.
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Support communities that will lose out in the energy transition Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-01
Climate campaigners and politicians rightly concentrate on the benefits of clean energy — but without more support for those who are adversely affected, the backlash will only grow.
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Not just truffles: dogs can sniff out surpassingly rare native fungus Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-30
Daisy, a member of a breed used to find fungal delicacies, detected a critically endangered Australian fungus faster than a trained human could.
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AI & robotics briefing: What running robots tell us about gaits Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-30
A robot that changes from trot to bounce to avoid falls hints at why four-legged animals transition between gaits. Plus, AI designs new gene-editing tools and how autonomous weapons are changing war.
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The science of 3 Body Problem: what’s fact and what’s fiction? Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-30
Nature spoke to the sci-fi program’s adviser and two other researchers about the portrayal of PhD scientists and their technologies.
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This social sciences hub galvanized India’s dynamic growth. Can it survive? Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-30
The Centre for Policy Research has lost its chief executive, most of its staff and is running out of cash.
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Multimodal decoding of human liver regeneration Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 K. P. Matchett, J. R. Wilson-Kanamori, J. R. Portman, C. A. Kapourani, F. Fercoq, S. May, E. Zajdel, M. Beltran, E. F. Sutherland, J. B. G. Mackey, M. Brice, G. C. Wilson, S. J. Wallace, L. Kitto, N. T. Younger, R. Dobie, D. J. Mole, G. C. Oniscu, S. J. Wigmore, P. Ramachandran, C. A. Vallejos, N. O. Carragher, M. M. Saeidinejad, A. Quaglia, R. Jalan, K. J. Simpson, T. J. Kendall, J. A. Rule, W. M
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Stereoselective amino acid synthesis by photobiocatalytic oxidative coupling Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Tian-Ci Wang, Binh Khanh Mai, Zheng Zhang, Zhiyu Bo, Jiedong Li, Peng Liu, Yang Yang
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Endurance exercise causes a multi-organ full-body molecular reaction Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-01
Stay on that treadmill to benefit every organ in your body.
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Intel brings quantum-computing microchips a step closer Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Ruoyu Li
Silicon qubits fabricated on a 300-mm wafer.
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We need more-nuanced approaches to exploring sex and gender in research Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Stacey A. Ritz, Lorraine Greaves
Some scientists are reluctant to investigate questions about sex and gender, particularly given today’s sociopolitical tensions around gender identity. But they should lean in and embrace the complexity.
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Why it’s essential to study sex and gender, even as tensions rise Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-01
Some scholars are reluctant to research sex and gender out of fear that their studies will be misused. In a series of specially commissioned articles, Nature encourages scientists to engage.
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Genomics reveal unknown mutation-promoting agents at global sites Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Irene Franco, Fran Supek
Cancer-sequence signatures point to unknown mutation-promoting agents.
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Male–female comparisons are powerful in biomedical research — don’t abandon them Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Arthur P. Arnold, Sabra L. Klein, Margaret M. McCarthy, Jeffrey S. Mogil
Binary sex studies have been denounced as too simplistic, but dropping them altogether would impede progress in a long-neglected area of biomedicine.
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Cells destroy donated mitochondria to build blood vessels Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Chantell S. Evans
Mitochondrial transfer enhances endothelial-cell grafts.
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Why is exercise good for you? Scientists are finding answers in our cells Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-01
Decades of evidence shows that exercise leads to healthier, longer lives. Researchers are just starting to work out what it does to cells to reap this reward.
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Resilience lessons from ancient societies are still relevant today Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 John Haldon
Long-term global analysis reveals what makes human populations resilient.
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Dad’s gut microbes matter for pregnancy health and baby’s growth Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Liisa Veerus, Martin J. Blaser, Yoel Sadovsky, Eldin Jašarević
Parental gut microbes boost offspring health and development of placenta.
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A Survey on Privacy of Personal and Non-Personal Data in B5G/6G Networks ACM Comput. Surv. (IF 16.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Chamara Sandeepa, Bartlomiej Siniarski, Nicolas Kourtellis, Shen Wang, Madhusanka Liyanage
The upcoming Beyond 5G (B5G) and 6G networks are expected to provide enhanced capabilities such as ultra-high data rates, dense connectivity, and high scalability. It opens many possibilities for a new generation of services driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and billions of interconnected smart devices. However, with this expected massive upgrade, the privacy of people, organisations, and states
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A Systematic Literature Review on Reasons and Approaches for Accurate Effort Estimations in Agile ACM Comput. Surv. (IF 16.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Jirat Pasuksmit, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Shanika Karunasekera
Background: Accurate effort estimation is crucial for planning in Agile iterative development. Agile estimation generally relies on consensus-based methods like planning poker, which require less time and information than other formal methods (e.g., COSMIC) but are prone to inaccuracies. Understanding the common reasons for inaccurate estimations and how proposed approaches can assist practitioners
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Why it was right to reject the Anthropocene as a geological epoch Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-30
Letter to the Editor
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How to stop students cramming for exams? Send them to sea Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-30
Snippets from Nature’s past.
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Corrosion is a global menace to crucial infrastructure — act to stop the rot now Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-30
Letter to the Editor
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Zoos should focus on animal welfare before claiming to champion conservation Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-30
Letter to the Editor
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Climate-targets group should rescind its endorsement of carbon offsets Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-30
Letter to the Editor
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First fetus-to-fetus transplant demonstrated in rats Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-30
The tissue developed into functioning kidneys and produced urine.
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What China’s mission to collect rocks from the far side could reveal about the Moon Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-30
The Chang’e-6 mission aims to land in the Moon’s oldest and largest crater, collect rocks, and bring them back to Earth.
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Why doing science is difficult in India today Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-30
With an election under way, the future of Indian science is on the ballot. Encouraging research and critical thinking should be a priority for the new government.
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Do cutting-edge CAR-T-cell therapies cause cancer? What the data say Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-30
Regulators have identified around 30 cases of cancer linked to this blockbuster treatment. But is CAR T to blame? The hunt is on for answers.
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Epic blazes threaten Arctic permafrost. Can fire-fighters save it? Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-29
Some scientists argue that it’s time to rethink the blanket policy of letting blazes burn themselves out in northern wildernesses.
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How reliable is this research? Tool flags papers discussed on PubPeer Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-29
Browser plug-in alerts users when studies — or their references — have been posted on a site known for raising integrity concerns.
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‘ChatGPT for CRISPR’ creates new gene-editing tools Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-29
Some of the AI-designed gene editors could be more versatile than those found in nature.
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A Review on the emerging technology of TinyML ACM Comput. Surv. (IF 16.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Vasileios Tsoukas, Anargyros Gkogkidis, Eleni Boumpa, Athanasios Kakarountas
Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) is an emerging technology proposed by the scientific community for developing autonomous and secure devices that can gather, process, and provide results without transferring data to external entities. The technology aims to democratize AI by making it available to more sectors and contribute to the digital revolution of intelligent devices. In this work, a classification
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Zero-Shot Neural Architecture Search: Challenges, Solutions, and Opportunities IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Guihong Li, Duc Hoang, Kartikeya Bhardwaj, Ming Lin, Zhangyang Wang, Radu Marculescu
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OoD-Control: Generalizing Control in Unseen Environments IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Nanyang Ye, Zhaoyu Zeng, Jundong Zhou, Lin Zhu, Yuxiao Duan, Yifei Wu, Junqi Wu, Haoqi Zeng, Qinying Gu, Xinbing Wang, Chenghu Zhou
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Optimizing Deep Neuro-fuzzy Network for ECG Medical Big Data through Integration of Multiscale Features IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Syst. (IF 11.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Xin Wang, Jianhui Lv, Byung-Gyu Kim, B.D. Parameshachari, Keqin Li, Dongsheng Yang, Achyut Shankar
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A Linguistically Interpretable Deep Fuzzy Classification System with Feature Transformation and Reconstruction IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Syst. (IF 11.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Zhen-Sheng Zang, Rui Yin, Wei Lu, Witold Pedrycz, Li-Yong Zhang
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I strive to make the Great Barrier Reef more resilient to heat stress Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-29
Matthew Nitschke grows coral symbionts in a slowly warming tank to prepare reef life for climate change.
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Superconductivity hunt gets boost from China's $220 million physics 'playground' Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-29
From extreme cold to strong magnets and high pressures, the Synergetic Extreme Condition User Facility (SECUF) provides conditions for researching these potential wonder materials.
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Elephant-nose fish ‘see’ farther by electric sensing when in groups Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-29
The elephant-nose fish detects electric pulses from its neighbours to extend the distance over which it senses objects.
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85 million cells — and counting — at your fingertips Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-29
Chan Zuckerberg CELL by GENE Discover aims to be a one-stop shop for single-cell RNA sequencing data storage, access and analysis.
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Daily briefing: Gaze upon the most detailed Moon maps ever made Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-26
The new Geologic Atlas took more than 100 researchers over a decade to compile. Plus, how gliding marsupials got their ‘wings’ and H5N1 bird flu virus material has been detected in US milk.
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A Survey of Graph Neural Networks for Social Recommender Systems ACM Comput. Surv. (IF 16.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Kartik Sharma, Yeon-Chang Lee, Sivagami Nambi, Aditya Salian, Shlok Shah, Sang-Wook Kim, Srijan Kumar
Social recommender systems (SocialRS) simultaneously leverage the user-to-item interactions as well as the user-to-user social relations for the task of generating item recommendations to users. Additionally exploiting social relations is clearly effective in understanding users’ tastes due to the effects of homophily and social influence. For this reason, SocialRS has increasingly attracted attention
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A Review on the Impact of Data Representation on Model Explainability ACM Comput. Surv. (IF 16.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani
In recent years, advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques have gained popularity due to their ability to solve problems across various domains with high performance and quality. However, these techniques are often so complex that they fail to provide simple and understandable explanations for the outputs they generate. To address this issue, the field of explainable artificial
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Uncertainty-boosted Robust Video Activity Anticipation IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Zhaobo Qi, Shuhui Wang, Weigang Zhang, Qingming Huang
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Searching to Exploit Memorization Effect in Deep Learning with Noisy Labels IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Hansi Yang, Quanming Yao, Bo Han, James T. Kwok
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A Review of State-of-the-Art Mixed-Precision Neural Network Frameworks IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Mariam Rakka, Mohammed E. Fouda, Pramod Khargonekar, Fadi Kurdahi
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A Versatile Framework for Multi-Scene Person Re-Identification IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Wei-Shi Zheng, Junkai Yan, Yi-Xing Peng
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Consistency-Aware Anchor Pyramid Network for Crowd Localization IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Xinyan Liu, Guorong Li, Yuankai Qi, Zhenjun Han, Anton van den Hengel, Nicu Sebe, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Qingming Huang
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Learning to Holistically Detect Bridges From Large-Size VHR Remote Sensing Imagery IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Yansheng Li, Junwei Luo, Yongjun Zhang, Yihua Tan, Jin-Gang Yu, Song Bai
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Bird flu virus has been spreading in US cows for months, RNA reveals Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-27
Genomic analysis suggests that the outbreak probably began in December or January, but a shortage of data is hampering efforts to pin down the source.
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Want to make a difference? Try working at an environmental non-profit organization Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-26
Moving to non-profit work requires researchers to shift their mindset to focus on applied science for policymaking and conservation practice.