AI agents representing papers could foster cross-disciplinary collaboration. Credit: Getty A new artificial-intelligence tool quickly transforms a research paper into a bespoke AI agent that serves as a “virtual corresponding author”. The agent can respond immediately to questions about the paper, providing a convenient way for scientists to grasp advances in unfamiliar fields. It can
Over two days in June, Emily Aguilar-Pine drove 2,500 kilometres from Bozeman, Montana, to Austin, Texas, with one of microbiology’s most coveted organisms in the back of her mother’s SUV. Inside some protective packaging, labelled ‘hopes and dreams’, was a small bottle containing about 30 millilitres of what looked like clear liquid, but that in
Study population and ethics declaration The MCPS is a prospective cohort of over 150,000 adult participants from Mexico City3,4. The baseline survey took place between 14 April 1998 and 28 September 2004 and focused on households in two urban districts, Coyoacán and Iztapalapa. Residents aged 35 years or older were invited to participate in the study. Of
Five antennas soak in the summer sun at the Deep Space Network’s Goldstone complex near Barstow, California, in August 2026. The recently completed Deep Space Station 23, a 34-meter (114-foot) beam-waveguide antenna, can be seen to the right of the frame in the foreground. The other three 34-meter antennas are, from left, DSS-26, DSS-25, and DSS-24.
CIGMA We developed CIGMA to unbiasedly quantify cell-type-shared and cell-type-specific eQTLs in scRNA-seq data. CIGMA avoids bias from eQTL detection power by using a linear mixed model, similar to the GREML model of complex trait heritability12. CIGMA models cell-type-specific pseudobulk data, which is computed by averaging across all cells in predefined cell types, one gene
You have full access to this article through your institution. People are more likely to trust scientists when scientists trust the public and are open about uncertainties.Credit: Isabel Infantes/AFP/Getty Niels Mede is curious to know how the public views science. Last month, two different Uber drivers told the science communication researcher that they thought trust
