How should ‘mirror life’ research be restricted? Debate heats up
Some researchers are developing biological systems that create mirror-image versions of DNA and other molecules crucial to life.Credit:…
how to fight back against a peer-review bully
Nyssa Silbiger still recalls the rude remark that reviewer three made in 2014 about her first paper describing…
Europe’s largest paper mill? 1,500 research articles linked to Ukrainian network
Paper mills often produce papers with fabricated data or sell authorships to researchers.Credit: Lane Erickson/Alamy An investigation has…
faster, healthier writing with AI speech recognition
Tools that turn speech into text not only save time, Zhicheng Lin finds, but also allow him to…
What counts as plagiarism? AI-generated papers pose new risks
This January, Byeongjun Park, a researcher in artificial intelligence (AI), received a surprising e-mail. Two researchers from India…
Take a tour of telescopes or tokamaks
It’s never too early to plan for a regular dose of physics during your vacation. If you are…
Germany and Europe lead digital innovation and AI with collaborative health data use at continental level
Bienzeisler et al.1 show how federated access to 7.9 million data sets representing 2 million patients enables the…
Nasa and Esa want to bring Martian rocks to Earth. Here’s what will happen to the samples once they get here
A mission will deliver rock and soil from Mars to laboratories on Earth in the 2030s. Mars Sample…