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A Nature paper introduces 'byteification', a method converting subword language models into byte-level ones with under 1% of a typical pretraining budget, producing models like Bolmo 7B that outperform prior byte-level baselines while retaining subword-level performance.

Bleached corals can recover within days when in direct contact with healthy neighbouring colonies, according to a Nature report highlighting a potential rapid recovery mechanism.

A Nature study describes a 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis discovered in the Diamantina Zone, offering insights into ancient marine ecosystems and whale evolution.

Anima Anandkumar highlights a Neural Operator framework that extends existing neural network architectures to learn continuous functions, addressing a key gap in AI's ability to understand the physical world. The work is featured in Nature and covered by Caltech.

A study published in Nature provides direct evidence that inherited genetic makeup influences cancer risk from environmental exposures like smoking and UV rays, explaining why some people develop cancer and others do not. The research in mice shows that genetic background alters how tumours evolve, with implications for personalized cancer prevention and treatment.

This Nature research paper presents an AI method that redesigns starting points and outcomes to enhance protein evolution.

Nature celebrates its covers and the human art of scientific illustration in the age of artificial intelligence.

MIT Media Lab researchers demonstrate that consumer-grade LiDAR sensors (like those in iPhones) can be used to see around corners, using a technique called motion-induced aperture sampling, enabling non-line-of-sight imaging with off-the-shelf hardware for under $100.

Researchers quantitatively assessed for the first time that somatic mutations alone cap human lifespan at 146–194 years, with brain and heart cells as the main bottleneck, while the liver could last millennia.

LSU physicists have created the first room-temperature quantum material, a plasmonic metacrystal that distinguishes and transports quantum states of light without cryogenic cooling, overcoming a key barrier and enabling practical quantum technologies.

Two Nature papers from Baker and Veesler labs describe AI-designed capsids that achieve quasi-symmetry, enabling larger protein shells than previously possible, clarifying that they designed architecture, not actual viruses.

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Researchers discovered a 'megacluster' of genes in Streptomyces that produces four molecules working together to block a key metabolic pathway in bacteria, offering a new strategy against antibiotic resistance.

A new peer-reviewed paper in Nature argues that Microsoft's claims of achieving a topological qubit with its Majorana 1 chip were not convincingly demonstrated, suggesting the observed signatures could be from quantum dots instead.

A scientist published a peer-reviewed critique in Nature arguing that Microsoft's quantum computing breakthrough claims are invalid due to basic Python errors and omitted data, suggesting the company's topological quantum computer is far from realization.

Wildbirds is a social app for birdwatchers to share and discover birds.

A new Nature paper from the Pakistan Genomic Resource (PGR) analyzes 173,303 Pakistanis from consanguineous communities, identifying human knockouts for nearly one-third of protein-coding genes, overturning biological assumptions like PRDM9 essentiality for fertility.

Quantinuum's 98-qubit Helios system achieves record single-qubit (99.9975%) and two-qubit (99.921%) fidelities with all-to-all connectivity, as reported in a peer-reviewed paper in Nature.

The article explores the 3-30-300 rule for urban tree coverage—three trees in view, 30% canopy coverage, and within 300m of a park—and discusses its adoption and impact on mental and physical health.

DeepMind's TacticAI, a system for analyzing football tactics, is published in Nature Communications, with potential applications in robotics and computer games due to its handling of partial observability and multimodal data.