Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. A laser beam tracks the motions of the tiny magnet suspended in a vacuum chamber as it wobbles in response to magnetic fields.Credit: Wei Ji, Peking University A new magnetometer — a device used to measure
An AI fact-checking tool found errors in molecule boiling points listed in a chemistry reference database.Credit: Monty Rakusen/Getty For decades, chemists have relied on handbook values for a molecule’s boiling point to identify substances and plan processes such as distillation. But an artificial-intelligence model has revealed that some trusted numbers in one reference database have