Nature Summaries and Reviews
See all summaries and reviews from Nature at a glance.
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
Beating Biometric Bias
The technology is improving – but the bigger issue is how it’s used.
Nature, 2020
Can Lab-Grown Brains Become Conscious?
A handful of experiments are raising questions about whether clumps of cells and disembodied brains could be sentient, and how scientists would know if they were.
Nature, 2020
Carbon’s Future in Black and White
There are reasons to be optimistic that the world will break its addiction to fossil fuels. But time is running out.
Nature, 2018
Classify Viruses – The Gain Is Worth the Pain
Viruses hold solutions to a lot of problems, so let’s fund and reward cataloguing, urge Jens H. Kuhn and colleagues.
Nature, 2019
Cloud Labs: Where Robots Do the Research
A host of companies provide a remote, automated workforce for conducting experiments around the clock.
Nature, 2023
Cybersecurity Needs Women
Safeguarding our lives online requires skills and experiences that lie beyond masculine stereotypes of the hacker and soldier, says Winifred R. Poster.
Nature, 2018
Dams Have the Power to Slow Climate Change
Mitigate global warming and produce clean, cheap hydropower at the same time, urges Mike Muller.
Nature, 2019
Deep-Sea Dilemma
Mining the ocean floor could solve mineral shortages – and lead to epic extinctions in some of the most remote ecosystems on Earth.
Nature, 2019
DeepMind AI Learns Simple Physics Like a Baby
Neural network could be a step towards programs for studying how human infants learn.
Nature, 2022
Design AI so that it’s Fair
Identify sources of inequity, de-bias training data and develop algorithms that are robust to skews in data, urge James Zou and Londa Schiebinger.
Nature, 2018
