NATURE
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Can a bold ‘social contract’ make data sharing more palatable?
The past decade has seen swathes of biomedical data collected across Africa1,2. These include, for example, demographic, health and environmental…
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Different flames
“Fire day! Fire day!” Roger chanted, the other kids joining in. Elo shrank in her seat. She’d already dreaded today’s…
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Air taxis will soon be in our skies — if batteries can be made safer
Batteries are already powering electric vehicles (EVs) on our roads. But they are yet to transform aviation. Although some electric…
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Hundreds of suspicious journals flagged by AI screening tool
An AI tool can screen thousands of journals, and identify ones that violate quality standards.Credit: PaulPaladin/Alamy Researchers have identified more…
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Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur
Raven, T. J., Barrett, P. M., Joyce, C. B. & Maidment, S. C. R. The phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history…
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Net zero needs AI — five actions to realize its promise
In 2024, the global average annual temperature exceeded 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels for the first time. Greenhouse-gas emissions are rising,…
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ORCID launched more than a decade ago, but has yet to fulfil its potential
Researchers who track publishing trends struggle to distinguish who is who among the many empty ORCID profiles.Credit: Bim/Getty Jonas Müller…
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Protect Antarctica — or risk accelerating planetary meltdown
Far from being a remote, isolated continent, Antarctica is integral to Earth’s climate and life-support systems. Its vast ice sheet…
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Watch a human embryo implant itself — with brute force
A microscopic view of a nine-day-old human embryo shows a protein found in embryonic stem cells in green, developing tissue…
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Impact of catastrophic flood might have been exacerbated by river-management programme
Nature, Published online: 12 August 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02354-8 Efforts to engineer a river to reduce flood risk might have unintentionally contributed…
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