Nature Summaries and Reviews
See all summaries and reviews from Nature at a glance.
Cloud Labs: Where Robots Do the Research
A host of companies provide a remote, automated workforce for conducting experiments around the clock.
Nature, 2023
Open-Source Language AI Challenges Big Tech’s Models
BLOOM aims to address the biases that machine-learning systems inherit from the texts they train on.
Nature, 2022
Sex, Drugs and Self-Control
It’s not just about rebellion. Neuroscience is revealing adolescents’ rich and nuanced relationship with risky behaviour.
Nature, 2017
How the Energy Transition Will Reshape Geopolitics
Paths to a low-carbon economy will create rivalries, winners and losers, warn Andreas Goldthau, Kirsten Westphal and colleagues.
Nature, 2019
Nuclear Energy, Ten Years after Fukushima
Amid the urgent need to decarbonize, the industry that delivers one-tenth of global electricity must consult the public on reactor research, design, regulation, location and waste.
Nature, 2021
How to Stop Cities and Companies Causing Planetary Harm
Researchers must help to define science-based targets for water, nutrients, carbon emissions and more to avoid cascading effects and stave off tipping points in Earth’s systems.
Nature, 2022
DeepMind AI Learns Simple Physics Like a Baby
Neural network could be a step towards programs for studying how human infants learn.
Nature, 2022
Your Brain Expands and Shrinks Over Time – These Charts Show How
Based on more than 120,000 brain scans, the charts are still preliminary. But researchers hope they could one day be used as a routine clinical tool by physicians.
Nature, 2022
Energy crisis: five questions that must be answered in 2023
Market turmoil and geopolitical realignment after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine put livelihoods and the green-energy transition at risk. Here’s how researchers can help overcome the threats.
Nature, 2022
An AI Tool to Make Clinical Trials More Inclusive
An artificial-intelligence tool called Trial Pathfinder can run clinical-trial emulations using healthcare data from people with cancer, and can learn how to optimize trial-inclusion eligibility criteria, while maintaining patient safety.
Nature, 2021
The Brain Inflamed
The brain’s immune system could be provoking Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. Can scientists get it back in check?
Nature, 2018
