How PhD assessment needs to change

How PhD assessment needs to change

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. The field of audiomics combines artificial intelligence tools with human sounds, such as a coughs, to evaluate health.Credit: Getty A machine-learning tool shows promise for detecting COVID-19 and tuberculosis from a person’s cough. While previous tools … Read more

iOS 18 might break the iPhone’s iconic app grid, and it’s a change no one asked for

iOS 18 might break the iPhone’s iconic app grid, and it’s a change no one asked for

The iPhone and iOS are not messy. Throughout their nearly 20-year life they’ve embodied precision and consistency, with no design element left to chance. There’s never a detail unexplained or unaccounted for; and one thing you absolutely will not find, on either the phone itself or in its operating system, is wasted space. This is … Read more

Larger or longer grants unlikely to push senior scientists towards high-risk, high-reward work

Larger or longer grants unlikely to push senior scientists towards high-risk, high-reward work

The duration and value of a grant are not likely to alter the research strategies of recipients in the United States.Credit: DigitalVision/Getty Offering professors more money or time isn’t likely to dramatically change how they do their research, a survey of US-based academics has found. The survey, described in a preprint article posted on arXiv … Read more

The Apple Watch SE is back on sale for $189 during the Amazon Spring Sale

The Apple Watch SE is back on sale for 9 during the Amazon Spring Sale

The Amazon Big Spring Sale isn’t over yet, and new deals are still popping up all over the site on everything from outdoor cameras to smartwatches—including our favorite budget Apple Watch for 2024. The second-generation Apple Watch SE is 24 percent off, dropping to $189 from $249. It’s not the device’s record-low price, but the … Read more

AMD RX 7900 GRE gets a free performance boost – is this now the best mid-range GPU you can buy?

AMD RX 7900 GRE gets a free performance boost – is this now the best mid-range GPU you can buy?

AMD’s RX 7900 GRE became available to buy in the US (and elsewhere) last month, but with an odd catch on the performance front – the good news being that this hiccup related to overclocking the GPU has now been cured. If you’ve been following the somewhat curious tale of the global launch of the … Read more

Pick up the 2023 Echo Show 8 with a free smart bulb for $100 in the Amazon Spring Sale

Pick up the 2023 Echo Show 8 with a free smart bulb for 0 in the Amazon Spring Sale

Today marks the end of the Amazon Big Spring Sale and there are still a few tech deals still worth checking out, including this bundle of an Echo Show 8 paired with an Amazon Basics smart bulb. If you bought them at full price and separately, you’d pay $163, but now the set is down … Read more

Save $800 on one of the best gaming PCs, the Alienware Aurora r15

Save 0 on one of the best gaming PCs, the Alienware Aurora r15

Dell features some of the best gaming PCs on the market, with powerful specs that supercharge your gaming experience with the best PC games. However, the premium pricing can put them out of reach for the average buyer. But this massive discount on one of the best gaming desktops on the market could make premium … Read more

Weird new electron behaviour in stacked graphene thrills physicists

Weird new electron behaviour in stacked graphene thrills physicists

Electrons in stacked sheets of staggered graphene collectively act as though they have fractional charges at ultra-low temperatures.Credit: Ramon Andrade 3DCiencia/Science Photo Library Minneapolis, Minnesota Last May, a team led by physicists at the University of Washington in Seattle observed something peculiar. When the scientists ran an electrical current across two atom-thin sheets of molybdenum … Read more

Prime members can get two Switch-ready SanDisk microSD cards for $25 in the Amazon Spring Sale

Prime members can get two Switch-ready SanDisk microSD cards for  in the Amazon Spring Sale

Amazon is selling a for $25 as part of the company’s Big Spring Sale. Each card is 128GB, totaling 256GB of sweet, sweet game storage. These are drives that have been designed and pre-formatted for Nintendo Switch systems, though they’ll work with just about any microSD reader. This deal, however, is only for Prime members. … Read more