Copying nature to resist viruses
For thousands of years, crops have been shaped by domestication processes. Farmers cross-breed and select new varieties, adapted to constantly ...
Tag: Nature
Nature Medicine publishes breakthrough Owkin research on the first ever use of federated learning to train deep learning models on multiple hospitals’ histopathology data
In research published in Nature Medicine today, AI biotech company Owkin has demonstrated for the first time that federated learning ...
Electricity harvesting from evaporation, raindrops and moisture inspired by nature
Raindrops, evaporating water, and even moisture in the air are all potentially sources of decentralized clean electricity generation, but many ...
Nature conservation needs to incorporate the human approach
An international study led by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) stresses the need to apply ...
Finding hidden regularities in nature: JAIST researchers apply deep learning to X-ray diffraction
Ishikawa, Japan -- X-ray diffraction (XRD) is an experimental technique to discern the atomic structure of a material by irradiating ...
Scientist mimic nature to make nano particle metallic snowflakes
Scientists in New Zealand and Australia working at the level of atoms created something unexpected: tiny metallic snowflakes. Why’s that ...
Polarization after COVID-19: Global study published in Nature reveals that the unvaccinated face prejudice in most countries
Across all inhabited continents of the world, people show prejudice and discriminatory attitudes towards individuals not vaccinated against COVID-19. This ...
Researchers say space atomic clocks could help uncover the nature of dark matter
Studying an atomic clock on-board a spacecraft inside the orbit of Mercury and very near to the Sun might be ...
To save nature, focus on populations, not species
AMHERST, Mass. – Human-released greenhouse gasses are causing the world to warm, and with that warming comes increasing stress for ...
Nature authors can now seamlessly share their data
In a further move to support open research, more journals in the Nature Portfolio – including Nature itself – will ...
Beneficial and beautiful: Biodiversity of meadows and pastures can be an asset for nature, agriculture, and tourism
Where species-rich meadows provide habitat for bees and other insects, ecosystem services such as pollination or natural pest control offer ...
Single-cell raman-based tool developed for efficient mining of live functional microbes from nature
Currently, the best way for scientists to isolate a specific microbe with a particular metabolic function from an environment is ...
Inspired by nature: Silencing bacteria
Bacteria love moist surfaces. Once they have settled there, they do not live as solitary organisms but form larger communities ...
Partnership with The Nature Conservancy on $60 million grant to advance agroforestry
The College of Natural Resources and Environment at Virginia Tech is part of a $60 million, five-year grant led by The Nature Conservancy for ...
How teamwork – in nature and the lab – can teach us about climate change
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Michigan State University and the University of California, Merced are working to get a better handle ...
Global hotspots for soil nature conservation are poorly protected
Current protected areas only poorly cover the places most relevant for conserving soil ecological values. This is the conclusion of ...
New star rating system published in Nature Medicine helps people make informed decisions about diet and healthy habits
SEATTLE, Wash., October 10, 2022 — A new set of meta-analyses clarifies the often complex and contradictory health guidance linking ...
Dozens of newly discovered gravitational lenses could reveal ancient galaxies and the nature of dark matter
Earlier this year a machine learning algorithm identified up to 5,000 potential gravitational lenses that could transform our ability to ...
Artificial soft surface autonomously mimics shapes of nature
DURHAM, N.C. – Engineers at Duke University have developed a scalable soft surface that can continuously reshape itself to mimic ...
Teaching robots to be team players with nature
Algae bloom, birds flock, and insects swarm. This en masse behavior by individual organisms can provide separate and collective good, ...
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Anu, previously gropod, awarded nearly $1 million competitive grant from the National Science Foundation
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International group of scientists warns nuclear radiation has devastating impacts on ecosystems
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Null results research now published by major behavioral medicine journal
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Latin American and Caribbean researchers detail colonialism in ornithology
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In search of the invisible galaxy
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Can pigeons match wits with artificial intelligence?