[ad_1] Tools such as ChatGPT can level the field for scientists who are English-language learners.Credit: Alamy In 2015, Hana Kang experienced a traumatic injury that damaged the left hemisphere of her brain, disrupting her facility for language and ability to process abstract thoughts. She spent the next six years rebuilding her memory, recovering basic mathematics … Read more
[ad_1] By staying organized in their job hunt, both authors received several job offers.Credit: Getty We met during the last year of our PhD training, after securing placements at the University of Illinois Chicago’s Department of Psychiatry for our predoctoral internships — the final step of our clinical doctoral programmes. V. R. came from the … Read more
[ad_1] Leo Wu, an economics student at Minerva University in San Francisco, California, founded a group to discuss how AI tools can help in education.Credit: AI Consensus The world had never heard of ChatGPT when Johnny Chang started his undergraduate programme in computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign in 2018. All that the … Read more
[ad_1] For Dritjon Gruda, artificial-intelligence chatbots have been a huge help in scientific writing and peer review.Credit: Vladimira Stavreva-Gruda Confession time: I use generative artificial intelligence (AI). Despite the debate over whether chatbots are positive or negative forces in academia, I use these tools almost daily to refine the phrasing in papers that I’ve written, … Read more
[ad_1] Researching the institutions you’re applying for can help you personalize your application.Credit: Getty Academic careers are meant to follow a set trajectory: PhD student, postdoctoral researcher, tenure-track job. But when we were thinking about what to do after our PhDs, we decided to skip the postdoc stage and go straight for tenure-track jobs owing … Read more
[ad_1] Selfish Genes to Social Beings: A Cooperative History of Life Jonathan Silvertown Oxford Univ. Press (2024) The fact that all life evolved thanks to natural selection can have depressing connotations. If ‘survival of the fittest’ is the key to evolution, are humans hardwired for conflict with one another? Not at all, says evolutionary biologist … Read more
[ad_1] Ranga Dias, the physicist at the centre of the room-temperature superconductivity scandal, committed data fabrication, falsification and plagiarism, according to a investigation commissioned by his university. Nature’s news team discovered the bombshell investigation report in court documents. The 10-month investigation, which concluded on 8 February, was carried out by an independent group of scientists … Read more
[ad_1] Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. A new drug consists of pieces of mRNA encased in a fatty envelope (artist’s impression).Credit: Kateryna Kon/SPL A therapy that extends mRNA technology beyond vaccines has shown early success in treating a rare genetic disease, … Read more
[ad_1] A photographic archive has been discovered in Lyon, France, that adds precious detail to what we know about the founding of the world’s first police crime laboratory in 1910 and its creator, Edmond Locard, a pioneer of forensic science. The huge collection, which comprises more than 20,000 glass photographic plates that document the laboratory’s … Read more
[ad_1] Kigali, Rwanda The church at Ntarama, a 45-minute drive south of Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, is a red-brick building about 20 metres long by 5 metres wide. Inside are features seen in Catholic churches around the world: pews for congregation members, an altar, stained-glass windows and a cross adorning the entrance. Then there are the … Read more