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This award-winning microscopy image used AI — igniting controversy in a prestigious competition

Researchers say that using artificial-intelligence tools to visualize scientific images can become problematic when models misrepresent the underlying data.

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  Modified medication targets the cells implicated in the condition’s tell-tale lesions.
  
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- Battle of the Anthropocene: allegations re-ignite row over proposed geologic epoch
  
  Researchers say that a vote to reject the epoch violated procedure and call for transparency.
  
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- AI ‘speech clock’ assesses how fast you’re ageing from your voice
  
  The pitch and emotional content of your speech are important predictors of accelerated ageing, researchers find.
  
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- How to spend $25 billion on science: OpenAI’s staggeringly rich research charity gets under way
  
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- Secret watermark labels proteins as ‘made by AI’
  
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- How did Earth get its water? Inside the extreme machine seeking answers
  
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- I turn up late to meetings to dodge small talk. Am I wrong?
  
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- Tuberculosis treatment has advanced — now we need to stop drug resistance dragging us backwards
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- The super El Niño is cooking coral reefs — can lullabies and probiotics save them?
  
  Researchers are trying everything they can to help coral reefs to survive severe heat stress from climate change, including playing sounds underwater.
  
  news feature | 30 Sep 2026
- These optical illusions are why butterflies are so hard to catch
  
  High-speed footage of takeoffs reveal that the butterfly markings mislead the eye, making them harder to catch.
  
  nature podcast | 30 Sep 2026
- Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers
  
  A Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.
  
  news feature | 25 Sep 2026
- How to stay smart in the age of AI: the science of critical thinking
  
  There is growing concern that AI can blunt memory and reasoning. But science shows ways to keep the brain sharp.
  
  news feature | 23 Sep 2026
- Can pancreatic cancer be stopped in its tracks? Radical tactic raises hopes
  
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- Sign of the times: AI lingo muscles into esteemed dictionary
  
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- Gaze into the cosmos and through the eyes of a bee — September’s best science images
  
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- Chinese-owned science journal created to rival the best
  
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Opinion

- Beware sham scientific societies: the research community must be more vigilant
  
  As AI content makes bad actors harder to spot, scrutiny of organizations must increase without reducing trust.
  
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- - AI can widen science — but only if institutions stop rewarding the already measurable
    
    Funders, journals and universities must reward the creation of new scientific terrain, not just the efficient mining of old ground.
    
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  - Lab-grown brain organoids: time for international oversight
    
    Researchers in the field are right to focus on biosafety, ethics and the involvement of patient groups and the public.
    
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  - AI-powered medical devices must be tested in real-world settings
    
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- A new chapter in targeting kinase enzymes in cancer
  
  Inhibitors of tyrosine kinase enzymes have been a cornerstone in precision cancer treatments. Now, targeted protein degraders could reshape therapeutic options.
  
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- Youthful fans of YouTube sports videos stick to the sofa
  
  University students who are highly motivated to watch sports online do not report higher participation in exercise.
  
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- Surprising protein links dietary restriction to increased lifespan in flies
  
  A fruit-fly protein thought only to store amino acids in fact responds to nutritional deficiency in both development and adulthood, resulting in lifespan extension.
  
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  A landmark collection of bat genomes reveals fresh clues about the evolution of one of the world’s most unusual groups of mammals.
  
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  Ten researchers and faculty members share what surprised them when they began teaching — and what they wish they had known before walking into the room.
  
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  Digital technologies increasingly shape everyday life. Computer scientist Francine Berman tells Nature that stronger safeguards are required to protect the public interest.
  
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