- May 15, 2025
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
Historic pandemic treaty is a triumph in a world being torn apart
You have full access to this article via your institution. Anne-Claire Amprou, co-chair of the pandemic treaty talks, with WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus at
Hundreds more NSF grants terminated after agency director resigns
Sethuraman Panchanathan resigned Thursday as director of the US National Science Foundation.Credit: Graeme Sloan/Sipa US/Alamy Fresh turmoil has hit the US National Science Foundation (NSF):
Spatial mapping of transcriptomic plasticity in metastatic pancreatic cancer
Halbrook, C. J., Lyssiotis, C. A., Pasca di Magliano, M. & Maitra, A. Pancreatic cancer: advances and challenges. Cell 186, 1729–1754 (2023). Article CAS PubMed
Brand-new colour created by tricking human eyes with laser
Researchers used lasers to stimulate individual cone cells in the retina — leading to the perception of a completely new colour.Credit: George Pachantouris/Getty Five people
Signs of life on a distant planet? Not so fast, say these astronomers
An artist’s impression of K2-18 b, where researchers report a signature of life’s activity.Credit: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser A University of Cambridge-led team of astronomers made
