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Too much mate choice overwhelms frogs 0
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- August 21, 2026
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT 19 August 2026 Female treefrogs select less carefully when hearing a chorus of males. The dating advice of there are ‘plenty more fish in the sea’ is often not helpful — especially, it seems, for frogs. Claire Hemingway at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and her colleagues studied the mating choices of
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How do people live beyond 110? Abundance of cancer-killing cells might be key 0
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- August 21, 2026
People who live to 110 years and older have large populations of a rare type of immune cell that can kill cancer1, finds a study published today in Cell Reports. It is possible that such cells, called killer T cells, might help people to live to extraordinarily long ages by fighting off cancer — although
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Multiyear tropical warm pool warming drives slowdown in Antarctic mass loss – Nature 0
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- August 21, 2026
Data Ice mass variability was quantified using GRACE and GRACE-FO gravimetry data50 spanning 2003–2024. SMB (precipitation minus meltwater runoff, sublimation, evaporation and wind erosion) outputs from RACMO2.4p1 (ref. 51) and MARv3.14 (refs. 52,53) were used to link precipitation variability to observed ice mass changes. Precipitation variability was assessed using several independent datasets, including ERA5 (ref.
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Researcher, heal thyself: meet the scientists studying their own diseases 0
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- August 21, 2026
David Fajgenbaum discovered how to repurpose a drug to treat his own rare disease and has dedicated much of his career to repurposing drugs. Credit: Noam Galai/Getty Images for Clinton Global Initiative As a child, molecular biologist Francesca Granata had episodes of skin pain so excruciating that she could not bear even a hug from
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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades 0
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- August 21, 2026
The US National Science Foundation has been a major funder of basic science in the United States. Credit: Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo/Alamy The US National Science Foundation (NSF) will award about 30% fewer new research grants this fiscal year than in the last one, Nature has learnt. The steep drop continues a pattern that began last
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Staggering 90% of biomedical papers now show signs of AI help 0
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- August 21, 2026
Paper introductions and discussions show more signs of AI use than results sections. Credit: Laurence Dutton/Getty The use of artificial intelligence to write scientific papers could be much more prevalent than was previously thought. That’s the upshot of a study that estimates that almost nine out of ten papers published in December 2025 in a
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