Julia Hirschberg thought that she had reason to celebrate. In July, she had been elected to become a member of the European Academy of Engineering (EAE), an organization billed on its website as the “premier institution representing the highest professional distinction in engineering” with 35 Nobel laureates among its more than 400 elected members. The
Imagine a factory where all the equipment is powered by AI, where robotic arms and assembly lines can “communicate” with their own shared language. Or picture a science lab, where microscopes can autonomously search for a certain type of molecule—all hours of the day, no humans necessary. That’s the idea behind Anthropic new Model Hardware
The Blumstein research group’s unconventional OnlyFans account is helping to support marmot research. Credit: Laura Green, Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty As an evolutionary ecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Daniel Blumstein never expected to open an OnlyFans account to earn money. But in June, Blumstein and his team — which conducts long-term
Astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish discovered pulsar stars using a radio telescope constructed near Cambridge, UK.Credit: Hencoup Enterprises/Science Photo Library The Engine of Scientific Discovery: How New Methods and Tools Spark Major Breakthroughs Alexander Krauss Oxford Univ. Press (2026) Popular accounts of notable scientific breakthroughs (including artificial intelligence) often portray them as the
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
