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Huge reproducibility project fails to validate dozens of biomedical studies

Unique reproducibility effort in Brazil focuses on common methods rather than a single field ― and prompts call for reform.

Baffling chronic pain eases after doses of gut microbes

A small, preliminary trial and studies in mice draw links between fibromyalgia and alterations of the gut microbiome.

Humberto Basilio
News24 Apr 2025
Hundreds more NSF grants terminated after agency director resigns

Sethuraman Panchanathan abruptly leaves helm of US funding agency after Elon Musk’s DOGE arrives.

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Long-distance coherent quantum communications in deployed telecom networks

A twin-field quantum key distribution protocol based on optical coherence is deployed over a 254-kilometre commercial telecom network, demonstrating that coherence-based quantum communication can be aligned with existing telecommunication infrastructure.

Mirko Pittaluga
Yuen San Lo
Andrew J. Shields
Article23 Apr 2025
Daily briefing: Sea-turtle conservation is working

Endangered sea turtle populations are bouncing back around the world — but there are still significant challenges. Plus, chimpanzees like to share fermented fruit and three ways to cool Earth by pulling carbon from the sky.

Flora Graham
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How Trump’s attack on universities is putting research in peril
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  Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is a growing health threat, but its evolution outside laboratory settings is poorly understood. Bacteria living in the human gut are now found to evolve persistent resistance after brief exposure to antibiotics, and factors that promote this evolution have been identified, highlighting the gut as a potential hotspot for this process.
  
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- Answers to a 160-year-old riddle about the genetics of Mendel’s pea traits
  
  The genetic bases of the seven pairs of contrasting traits in the garden pea that were described by the ‘father of genetics’, Gregor Mendel, have long puzzled scientists. The discovery of the genetic variants underlying these traits sheds light on the ‘inherited factors’ that Mendel proposed and how they shape biological differences.
  
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  Immune cells boost stress-linked fear responses by communicating with brain cells. One way that psychedelics lessen such fear is by modulating this interaction.
  
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  The high-resolution structure of a bridge-like lipid-transfer protein that moves lipids between cellular compartments shows how these ‘lipid superhighways’ operate.
  
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Psychedelic control of neuroimmune interactions governing fear

Inflammatory monocytes in the brain meninges promote stress-induced fear behaviour, and the pathways involved can be modulated using psychedelic compounds.

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Jinsu Lee
Michael A. Wheeler
Article23 Apr 2025
Superconducting gap of H₃S measured by tunnelling spectroscopy

Characterizing the superconducting gap structure in the high-temperature superconductor H₃S by means of tunnelling spectroscopy reveals that it, as well as D₃S, has a fully gapped structure, confirming the phonon-mediated mechanism of superconducting pairing.

Feng Du
Alexander P. Drozdov
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ArticleOpen Access23 Apr 2025
Deciphering disordered regions controlling mRNA decay in high-throughput

Using high-throughput functional profiling, how disordered regions control mRNA stability and translation is explored.

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Huge reproducibility project fails to validate dozens of biomedical studies

Baffling chronic pain eases after doses of gut microbes

Hundreds more NSF grants terminated after agency director resigns

Long-distance coherent quantum communications in deployed telecom networks

Daily briefing: Sea-turtle conservation is working

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Hundreds more NSF grants terminated after agency director resigns

Huge reproducibility project fails to validate dozens of biomedical studies

Eugenics is on the rise again: human geneticists must take a stand

Science sleuths flag hundreds of papers that use AI without disclosing it

How Trump’s attack on universities is putting research in peril

Major European institutes join race to save US science data

Baffling chronic pain eases after doses of gut microbes

Latest Reviews & Analysis

Tracking the evolution and persistence of antibiotic resistance in the human gut

Answers to a 160-year-old riddle about the genetics of Mendel’s pea traits

Psychedelics reduce fear by targeting immune cells that modulate brain cells

Shapeshifting origami material shrinks when twisted

A protein tunnel that shuttles lipids around the cell

Heart-attack outcomes are worse in the morning when activity of protein duo dips

Memories of a cold place trigger bodily responses to warm up

Blood cancer driven by ‘one hit’ mutation event undergoes rapid growth

Quantum communication across a 250-kilometre optical-fibre network

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Whole-body physics simulation of fruit fly locomotion

Geographic and age variations in mutational processes in colorectal cancer

Psychedelic control of neuroimmune interactions governing fear

Superconducting gap of H₃S measured by tunnelling spectroscopy

Deciphering disordered regions controlling mRNA decay in high-throughput

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