Artificial intelligence is flying high. Nature asked leading innovators what they think will happen next. go.nature.com/3WWokpq

If you're interested in AI, where it's heading, and the people behind the wheel, perhaps you'll give our new feature a look www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Great new video up on the @nature.com YouTube channel, @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social on a new magnetic smart fabric, that could make clothes that breath, or delicate robot fingers youtu.be/FHW6eKvtcBw

Come and make some vertical videos with me? springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

Check out these Brontosaurus by William Scheele, painted for a 1988 series of collectible cards. They’re so chunky and cute, almost like toys! They’re surprisingly muscular for the time, too. The arms on the one in the foreground are downright scary!

Highly recommend, we're fun! Also a great chance to cover cool science.

Come and make some vertical videos with me? springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

Me and my distinguished cartoon mustache dive into new research on online sexism. The ChatGPT results are eye-opening, but the impact of googling on people's actual beliefs about the world was something I didn't expect!

Great new film from @nature.com youtu.be/BGT7kuaruZY?... @shamini.bsky.social and @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social knocked this one out of the park

Super close race in the technology Lovies category this year. Go and and give @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social a vote, and watch his excellent film on the AI surveillance pipeline while you're there vote.lovieawards.com/PublicVoting...

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

Final final version four

I'm pretty sceptical about 'AI scheming', as it's so easy to anthropomorphise & experiments often involve telling the AI to do the bad thing they end up doing. To understand what's behind the hype, read this smart & sober overview [email protected] 🧪🤖 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit" Stay tuned for more.

Check out these brilliant kirigami parachutes youtu.be/6rrDW6YIbXI

Check out these brilliant kirigami parachutes youtu.be/6rrDW6YIbXI

I know what you're thinking and no, that's not how they rescued him. www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

Mark unread of the beast.

Look what we have here then.

In this podcast mini-series 🔊 we explore why scientific misconduct happens and how to tackle it. go.nature.com/47u7Zig

Things used to look real nice. Even Croydon.

What do you feed a factory full of mosquitos? Horse/human blood cocktail. Obvs.

Ever heard of a mosquito factory? Fighting mosquito-borne diseases... with more mosquitoes! Loved working on this vid with @marilenharo.bsky.social for @nature.com 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Nc...

How is this possible? This ant can lay eggs of two different species, birthed by the same mother

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species go.nature.com/4mOb5T9

One mother, two species: a bizarre case of sexual parasitism results in two distinct species of ant being produced from a single mother. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This ant story is absolute cosmic alien horror bananas!

Next level rice cooker.

This week's audio long read: How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe even AI Scientists are searching for awareness in all its possible forms — insights from human brains could inform that quest. go.nature.com/4n2Jk8T

1/3 Some time ago I was asked by a French movie magazine if I could recreate the iconic Alien poster using my miniature photography skills, it's one of my all time favourite movies so I jumped at the chance and obviously I had to do it practically, here's the final image made only from 2 photos...

Light-powered flying saucers, Victorian toys, and @danjfox.bsky.social animations. This video has it all! And they could help understand a weird part of the atmosphere known as the mesosphere, that's too thin for balloons and too heavy for satellites.

New film. Tiny solar-powered fliers. Mesopheric flotsam youtu.be/r-3OZGuHOvQ

you got it boss

the scenario we all feared

trapped with four strangers in the vestibule of a delayed and overcrowded Avanti train as the Lionesses take to the pitch for the Euros final - my life a state of the nation play for real

Bird sounds.

This photograph series by Mark Cowan documents a phenomenon called 'lachryphagy' ("tear-feeding"). The caiman excretes salt in their tears & the butterflies need the precious minerals for their metabolism & reproduction. So, they're feeding on crocodilian tears. (📷: Mark Cowan, Curtin Uni.)

This kind of "AI" (which we used to call machine learning) is incredibly cool and exciting. Tools like this which do things humans are bad at (like large-scale pattern recognition) are invaluable. I hate that this kind of important work is being crowded out by LLM "AI" slop and hype.

"With full MMR vaccination rates across the UK down to around 85% and even lower in some cities, we are falling well short of the critical immunisation threshold which would allow us to protect the most vulnerable in society from measles" @kityates.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Great thread from Nick here.

Great podcast from @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social here. How do you solve human mistakes in science?

How can we make scientific literature free of errors? Our new series figures it out 🔊 go.nature.com/3IGedRI

‘Stealth flippers’ helped this ancient mega-predator stalk its prey

Two low-cost techniques to revive the hearts of people who wish to donate their organs after they die could increase the number of hearts available for organ donation, particularly for children.🧪

OH COME ON

Could hidden AI prompts game peer review?

For this week's @naturepodcast.bsky.social we chatted about a news story on researchers putting hidden prompts into preprints to try to game peer review, and turned it into a 90-sec vid. Take a look here: www.youtube.com/shorts/WvamK... 🧪🤖 With @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social & @danjfox.bsky.social

Some researchers are putting stealth AI prompts into their papers to game peer review! @lizziegibney.bsky.social and @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social have the story youtube.com/shorts/WvamK...

Excellent Wikipedia page. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-...