Category Science & Discovery

CLINICAL BRIEFINGS 21 February 2025 Through comprehensive genomic and immune analyses, mechanisms of lung cancer resistance after treatment with EGFR inhibition and vaccine therapy were investigated. This case report, together with data from the longitudinal lung cancer study TRACERx, highlight…

Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly large language models like GPT-4, has shown impressive performance on reasoning tasks. But does AI truly understand abstract concepts, or is it just mimicking patterns? A new study from the University of Amsterdam and the Santa…

A resilient pair of internet-famous American bald eagles is at it again. Jackie and Shadow are currently incubating three eggs on their large nest overlooking Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino mountains east of Los Angeles, California.  According to…

He tweaked a machine learning technique called a hidden Markov model so it would work with fMRI data. The algorithm can be trained to recognize structure for events that stretch out over time, such as an episode of a TV…

Credit: Pixabay from Pexels Rising temperatures and intensifying drought continue to worsen with the global climate crisis. According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 55 million people worldwide are affected by drought each year—a number expected to grow as…

Adam Levy 00:02 Hello, I’m Adam Levy, and this is Mind matters: academia’s mental health crisis, a podcast from Nature Careers. In this episode: promoting wellbeing. Throughout this series, we have focused on the challenges that academia can pose for…

Fetal acetaminophen exposure increases the likelihood that a child will develop attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a study published Feb. 6 in Nature Mental Health. Prior research shows that upward of 70% of pregnant women use acetaminophen during pregnancy to…

It’s an sunny February morning and you turn on the TV to watch the local weather report. The meteorologist’s forecast says 30 degrees Fahrenheit, which doesn’t seem too bad. It’s winter after all! But then, you notice that the “feels-like”…

Parkin and OMA1 prevent excess mitochondrial fusion. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08590-2 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine researchers have discovered a dual regulatory mechanism safeguarding mitochondrial integrity through the combined actions of Parkin–PINK1 and OMA1. The study reveals that…

An artist’s impression of an asteroid.Credit: ESA-Science Office New calculations indicate that the asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is now much less likely to hit Earth than earlier measurements had suggested. Late on 19 February, telescope observations of the object…