- May 30, 2025
How the natural world is inspiring the robot eyes of the future
The miniature curved compound eye, called CurvACE, was inspired by the eyes of insects.Credit: Alain Herzog, EPFL Electrical engineer Young Min Song remembers when his
Scientists with ADHD speak up: when fire meets focus
Lis Gallant’s ADHD helps her to switch her attention rapidly to manage field site safety and data collection under intense volcanic conditions.Credit: Hawaiian Volcano Observatory/USGS
COVID changed our appetite for zombies
The year was 2013, and the release of hotly anticipated zombie-apocalypse video game was on the horizon. The game, called The Last of Us, invited
team up to jump-start innovative science
The cuts to US federal science funding are beginning to bite around the world. Now, more than ever, private funders, such as philanthropic organizations, must
Can AI help us talk to dolphins? The race is now on
Bottlenose dolphins’ whistles will be analysed using artificial intelligence.Credit: Georgette Douwma/Nature Picture Library Will artificial intelligence (AI) finally allow us to talk to animals? To
Dopaminergic action prediction errors serve as a value-free teaching signal
Animals Male and female adult mice, aged between 2 and 7 months old, from the following mouse lines were used: C57BL/6 J wild-type (Charles River), Drd1-Cre
planetary scientists outraged over deletion of research records
Over the past several weeks, hundreds of meeting abstracts have quietly vanished from the websites of research conferences organized by the Lunar and Planetary Institute
P hacking — Five ways it could happen to you
Credit: MirageC / Getty It can happen so easily. You’re excited about an experiment, so you sneak an early peek at the data to see
Teens with anxiety and depression spend more time on social media
The survey asked more than 3,000 UK teens about their experiences using social media.Credit: Ute Grabowsky/Photothek/Getty Teenagers with mental–health conditions spend more time on social
how an Indigenous computer scientist is using AI to preserve threatened languages
Colleagues routinely describe Michael Running Wolf as someone who walks seamlessly between two worlds. As an artificial intelligence (AI) researcher at the software-development company SynthBee
