Superluminal correlations in ensembles of optical phase singularities
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Major conference catches illicit AI use — and rejects hundreds of papers
Organizers of the 2026 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) used a watermarking system to catch the use…
‘Zombie cells’ return from the dead — after a genome transplant
These Mycoplasma capricolum bacterial cells have absorbed a genome engineered from a closely related bacterium, Mycoplasma mycoides.Credit: Thomas…
Can a mouse be cloned indefinitely? Decades-long experiment has answers
Scientists harvested eggs from 25th-generation cloned mice and fertilized the eggs, which grew into these early-stage embryos. Credit:…
The world just lived through the 11 hottest years on record — what now?
The past 11 years have been the hottest on record, with 2025 being the second or third hottest…
Stress can cause eczema to flare-up – now we know why
Soothing the skin can help reduce eczema flare ups. Credit: Ladanifer/iStock via Getty For people with eczema, stress…
Local agricultural transition, crisis and migration in the Southern Andes
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Global ocean heat content over the past 3 million years
Shackleton, S. et al. Miocene and Pliocene ice and air from the Allan Hills blue ice area, East…
Observing the tidal pulse of rivers from wide-swath satellite altimetry
The importance of tides is embodied in the origins of the word ‘estuary’, which comes from the Latin…
Broadly stable atmospheric CO2 and CH4 levels over the past 3 million years
Lüthi, D. et al. High-resolution carbon dioxide concentration record 650,000–800,000 years before present. Nature 453, 379–382 (2008). Article …