Astrolabe shows 11th-century scientific collaboration among Jews, Muslims and Christians

Astrolabe shows 11th-century scientific collaboration among Jews, Muslims and Christians

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Woolly mammoths’ closest living relatives are Asian elephants, which could be genetically engineered to have mammoth-like traits.Credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library via Alamy The US company Colossal Biosciences says it has put elephant skin cells into … Read more

The Elgato Stream Deck MK.2 is on sale for $130 at Amazon

The Elgato Stream Deck MK.2 is on sale for 0 at Amazon

There’s still time to make 2024 the year you upgrade your streaming capabilities. Doing so is currently more affordable with Elgato’s Stream Deck MK.2 down to $130 from $150. The 13 percent discount brings it to just $15 more than its record-low price — but we haven’t seen that deal since July Prime Day 2023. … Read more

Voigtlander’s stunning retro lenses are what Nikon’s Zf and Z fc mirrorless cameras badly need

Voigtlander’s stunning retro lenses are what Nikon’s Zf and Z fc mirrorless cameras badly need

Ambling through the packed CP+ 2024 Camera and Photo Imaging Show halls in Yokohama Japan, I was drawn to the Voigtlander stand decked with various lenses alongside compatible cameras. Then I saw it – a gorgeous lens attached to the retro Nikon Z fc. I had to look twice: was this a manual-focus SLR lens … Read more

Inside the room-temperature superconductivity scandal

Inside the room-temperature superconductivity scandal

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Long-term use of antiretroviral drugs can cause abnormal fat accumulation in people with HIV.Credit: Jose Calvo/SPL People with HIV could benefit from semaglutide, the blockbuster drug marketed as Wegovy for obesity and Ozempic for diabetes. If … Read more

Bring PhD assessment into the twenty-first century

Bring PhD assessment into the twenty-first century

Innovation in PhD education has not reached how doctoral degrees are assessed.Credit: Dan Dunkley/Science Photo Library Research and teaching in today’s universities are unrecognizable compared with what they were in the early nineteenth century, when Germany and later France gave the world the modern research doctorate. And yet significant aspects of the process of acquiring … Read more

I quit my job and launched an advocacy non-profit

I quit my job and launched an advocacy non-profit

Morteza Mahmoudi is the co-founder of the Academic Parity Movement, an organization that aims to end bullying in academia.Credit: Haniyeh Aghaverdi Whistle-blower stories This column is the second of two in which academic whistle-blowers describe how they moved on professionally after raising concerns about their workplaces. In the first article, gender-equality researcher Susanne Täuber writes … Read more

Google’s presentation software has a new Gemini AI powered feature that is basically magic

Google’s presentation software has a new Gemini AI powered feature that is basically magic

Google may have just shown off the power of its Gemini AI platform in an intriguing way that could save slideshow fans hours of stress. The company has revealed it will be utilizing its flagship AI offering within Google Slides to help users with formatting in a very particular way that might seem like magic … Read more

How OpenAI’s text-to-video tool Sora could change science – and society

How OpenAI’s text-to-video tool Sora could change science – and society

Sora is one of several AI tools that generates video from text promptsCredit: OpenAI The release of OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video AI tool last month was met with a mix of trepidation and excitement from researchers who are concerned about misuse of the technology. The California-based company showcased Sora’s ability to create photorealistic videos from a … Read more