A breast cancer cell (artificially coloured) climbs through a supportive film in a laboratory experiment.Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/SPL Some stealthy cancers remain undetected until they have spread from their source to distant organs. Now scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that outperforms pathologists at identifying the origins of metastatic cancer cells that circulate in
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as the chatbot ChatGPT, have become so advanced that they now very nearly match or exceed human performance in tasks including reading comprehension, image classification and competition-level mathematics, according to a new report (see ‘Speedy advances’). Rapid progress in the development of these systems also means that many common benchmarks
When looking down on a cloud from an aeroplane, you can sometimes spot an iridescent aura surrounding the plane’s shadow. It is a ‘glory’, a phenomenon reminiscent of a rainbow but arising through a different mechanism. Astronomers could now have made the first sighting of a glory outside the Solar System1. Access options Access Nature
Institut Jean Lamour, Université de Lorraine, CNRS, UMR 7198, Nancy, France Pambiang Abel Dainone, Alexandre Bouché, Xavier Devaux, Mathieu Stoffel, Tongxin Chen, Philippe Pigeat, Michel Vergnat, Hervé Rinnert, Stephane Mangin, Juan-Carlos Rojas-Sánchez & Yuan Lu Laboratoire Albert Fert, CNRS, Thales, Université Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau, France Nicholas Figueiredo Prestes, Jean-Marie George & Henri Jaffrès Université de Toulouse, INSA-CNRS-UPS, LPCNO, Toulouse, France Pierre Renucci, Laurent Lombez, Delphine Lagarde & Xavier Marie Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Centre de
Credit: Toni Albir/EPA/Shutterstock During a few weeks in the summer of 1964, Peter Higgs, a theoretical physicist at the University of Edinburgh, UK, wrote two short papers outlining his ideas for a mechanism that could give mass to fundamental particles, the building blocks of the Universe. His aim was to rescue a theory that was
It was hailed as a potentially transformative technique for measuring brain activity in animals: direct imaging of neuronal activity (DIANA), held the promise of mapping neuronal activity so fast that neurons could be tracked as they fired. But nearly two years on from the 2022 Science paper1, no one outside the original research group and
Heber Springs, Arkansas “It makes your heart want to skip a beat — and you cannot really describe it to someone who hasn’t experienced it in person,” said Lynnice Carter on Monday, after watching the total solar eclipse that crossed North America. Carter, a retired educator from Blue Springs, Mississippi, travelled about 230 miles (370
Researching the institutions you’re applying for can help you personalize your application.Credit: Getty Academic careers are meant to follow a set trajectory: PhD student, postdoctoral researcher, tenure-track job. But when we were thinking about what to do after our PhDs, we decided to skip the postdoc stage and go straight for tenure-track jobs owing to
Kigali, Rwanda The church at Ntarama, a 45-minute drive south of Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, is a red-brick building about 20 metres long by 5 metres wide. Inside are features seen in Catholic churches around the world: pews for congregation members, an altar, stained-glass windows and a cross adorning the entrance. Then there are the scars
Ranga Dias, the physicist at the centre of the room-temperature superconductivity scandal, committed data fabrication, falsification and plagiarism, according to a investigation commissioned by his university. Nature’s news team discovered the bombshell investigation report in court documents. The 10-month investigation, which concluded on 8 February, was carried out by an independent group of scientists recruited
