Category Science & Discovery

Nature, Published online: 12 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00727-7 Despite the buzz surrounding smart cities in urban-policy circles, studies are lacking on the evidence for what works, what doesn’t — and who benefits. Source link

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Eukaryotic phytoplankton drive a decrease in primary production under ocean acidification. Credit: Dalin Shi Princeton University and Xiamen University researchers report that in tropical and subtropical oligotrophic waters, ocean acidification reduces primary production, the process of photosynthesis in phytoplankton, where they…

Kei Sato was looking for his next big challenge five years ago when it smacked him — and the world — in the face. The virologist had recently started an independent group at the University of Tokyo and was trying…

It’s 2025, and we don’t have flying cars or talking robots yet. Fortunately, we do have some cool apps courtesy of artificial intelligence, and DeskSense is one of them.  DeskSense provides a personal assistant at your beck and call, and…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Density functional theory (DFT) is a cornerstone tool of modern physics, chemistry, and engineering used to explore the behavior of electrons. While essential in modeling systems with many electrons, it suffers from a well-known flaw called…

As the COVID-19 pandemic has abated, mortality from other causes in the United States has kept climbing, reflecting disturbing trends not seen in any other high-income country. Despite US health-care spending being about US$13,500 per person in 2022 — twice…

Cockroaches have some of the worst PR in the animal kingdom. With a better agent, their story could be that of a hardy insect that has successfully thrived on every continent except Antarctica. People would talk of the incredible diversity…

Success rates of single-target RF models in predicting kinase inhibitory activity for the 8 selected compounds. The success rate represents the percentage of correctly predicted kinase activities obtained for each compound against the 20 experimentally tested targets. Credit: International Journal…

bioRxiv, a preprint repository for biology, launched in 2013.Credit: Tom Houghton for Nature A new chapter has begun for two of the world’s most popular preprint platforms, bioRxiv and medRxiv, with the launch of a non-profit organization that will manage…