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Babies do make memories — so why can’t we recall our earliest years?
MRI scans show that the brains of infants and toddlers can encode memories, even if we don’t remember them as adults.
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Is dark energy getting weaker? Fresh data bolster shock finding
Physicists had long assumed that the elusive force has constant strength. But the latest results from a project to map the Universe’s expansion challenge this idea.
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A textbook assumption about the brain’s most abundant receptors needs to be rewritten
The AMPA group of brain receptors have mostly been assumed to be calcium impermeable and so were not thought to contribute to the calcium-dependent mechanisms underlying learning and memory. Observations of calcium permeability in some AMPA-receptor subtypes now overturn those assumptions about these receptors’ properties and their roles in neuronal communication.
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Mutations that accrue through life set the stage for stomach cancer
Comprehensive maps of mutations in healthy and diseased gastric tissue give clues about how cancer arises and could inform early-detection strategies.
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Bird brains help scientists to unveil the secrets of speech
Neural recordings from parrots and songbirds reveal the ways in which vocal production is encoded in the brain, highlighting remarkable similarities between how parrots and humans learn to produce sounds.
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New antifungal breaks the mould
A bacterium makes a molecule that kills drug-resistant fungi in an unusual way — by targeting various phospholipid molecules in membranes.
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Cleaning up space: how satellites and telescopes can live together
Satellites connect people around the world but they also interfere with astronomers’ views of the cosmos. There are ways to reduce these tensions.
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Why humans have puzzle-shaped cells
The specialized cells that let lymph leak (and why that's a good thing)
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Tiny satellite sets new record for secure quantum communication
Laser-based system allows quantum-encrypted information to be beamed across the globe, plus — an AI that can improve other AIs via written feedback, and an update on science in the US in the wake of Trump team’s cuts.
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Mini-satellite paves the way for quantum messaging anywhere on Earth
A Chinese team has transmitted quantum-encrypted images a record , kilometres.
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Disconnections

An antisocial network.

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Disconnections
An antisocial network.
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An experiment in mass education using satellite TV

Plans to
An experiment in mass education using satellite TV
Plans to broadcast TV to villages in India to improve literacy rates, and camels that have settled in the Nevada desert, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archive.
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Fossilized dinosaur cells that defied the ravages of time —
Fossilized dinosaur cells that defied the ravages of time — years since a key discovery
The finding of cells and blood vessels in dinosaur bone launched a systematic search for fossil remnants of biomolecules, creating innovations in methods and applications.
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The early origins of bone-tool manufacturing traditions by hominins . million years ago
Excavations at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, reveal evidence of the systematic use of animal bones as a raw material for prehistoric tools.
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How the US tech industry is shaping the transition to green
How the US tech industry is shaping the transition to green energy
Major investments to fuel AI’s power demands are not the only way big tech is having an influence.
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Catchy, clear, concise: three-part phrases boost research pa
Catchy, clear, concise: three-part phrases boost research paper citations
Memorable ‘tripartite’ phrases in titles make studies more likely to be read and cited.