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Forget SkinTok: the real science of skincare and why it matters for your health

Keep calm and be transparent: advice from scientists who retracted their papers

‘Virtual cell’ captures most-basic process of life: bacterial division

Genome modelling and design across all domains of life with Evo 2

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Forget SkinTok: the real science of skincare and why it matters for your health

How data can help to guide NIH funding policy

Stop the use of AI in war until laws can be agreed

Keep calm and be transparent: advice from scientists who retracted their papers

‘Virtual cell’ captures most-basic process of life: bacterial division

My PhD student is stuck. How do I teach them perseverance and problem solving?

How Congress can restore the independence of US science

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Could flies sniff out contraband chemicals?

High-rise transistors can be used to build space-saving circuits

Rising temperatures pose a threat to tropical insects

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A genetic switch turns off parental behaviour and drives infanticide in male striped mice

Do wet or dry soils trigger thunderstorms? It depends on how the wind blows

Skin cells boost distant antibody responses

Radiology AI makes consistent diagnoses using 3D images from different health centres

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Maximizing carrier extraction in hybrid back-contact silicon solar cells

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