Artificial intelligence tools, when given well-written prompts, can generate attractive and clear graphical summaries for research papers.Credit: Juj Winn/Getty A graphical summary in an article is one of the most useful tools for communicating hard-won research results. It makes findings more memorable, accessible, and engaging for everyone, from experts in the field and policymakers to
We trudged up a hill, our environmental suits glowing orange and green in the slanting light of evening, the colors contrasting starkly with the serene tans of the surface of the moon Varga. Jalaya’s boots kicked up small clouds of regolith that swelled up to calf height before settling, only to be thrown up again
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Mysterious black lesions found on brown bullhead catfish (Ameiurus nebulosus) in Lake Memphremagog, straddling the borders of Canada and the United States, turned out to be a type of transmissible melanoma. Credit: Phil Degginger/Alamy Researchers have discovered a contagious cancer in catfish, just the fourth example of tumor cells spreading naturally from one animal to
In early 2024, a striking illustration in a published article sparked a lively debate on social media. The image showed a rat with a penis and testicles larger than the rest of the animal’s body. The authors noted that the illustration was generated by an artificial intelligence model called Midjourney, but was obviously inaccurate, as
Ten years ago, the virus that causes polio seemed to be on its way to extinction. In August 2016, Nigeria experienced its last two cases of the wild virus, leaving it circulating only in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Amid global enthusiasm, Hamid Jafari, who at the time was leading polio operations and research at the World