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A debacle at the company that built ChatGPT highlights concern that commercial forces are acting against the responsible development of artificial-intelligence systems.

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Aligning climate scenarios to emissions inventories shifts global benchmarks

Aligning the IPCC-assessed mitigation pathways with the national greenhouse gas inventories shows that key global mitigation benchmarks become harder to achieve, requiring achieving earlier net-zero and lower cumulative emissions.

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Daily briefing: How AI brought back the Klimt masterpiece destroyed by Nazis

Artificial intelligence can help to regain lost art treasures. Plus, brain cells that control how quickly mice eat have been identified and how to make ‘loss and damage’ climate funding work.

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  A curious topological structure known as a hopfion ring has been induced in a magnetic material. The first of its kind in 3D, the ring is a tantalizing prospect for several branches of computing development.
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- JWST ends game of hide and seek with methane
  
  The space telescope has helped to determine the atmospheric composition of an exoplanet using the light spectrum of its host star. Spectral changes as the planet orbits the star reveal the long-sought presence of exoplanetary methane.
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- Ancient DNA uncovers past migrations in California
  
  Genomic data from ancient humans who lived up to 7,400 years ago, sampled from across California and Mexico, unveil patterns of migration that could explain how some Indigenous languages spread in parts of North America.
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  The time frame of a species’ origins provides context for evolutionary questions. However, dates from fossils are often inconsistent with estimates from genetic data. Emerging evidence points to a new explanation for this discrepancy.
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HIV-1 Env trimers asymmetrically engage CD4 receptors in membranes

HIV-1 Env trimers bound to one, two and three CD4 molecules are observed at membrane–membrane interfaces between HIV-1 and CD4-decorated virus-like particles.

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Sequential appetite suppression by oral and visceral feedback to the brainstem

Genetically distinct neural circuits in the caudal brainstem receive feedback from the mouth and gut to regulate feeding behaviour on short and long timescales.

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Structural insights into intron catalysis and dynamics during splicing

Analysis of the group II intron ribonucleoprotein shows the molecular interactions involved in branchpoint adenosine recognition, lariat formation and exon ligation, providing clues to the evolutionary conservation of structural components and catalytic mechanisms in premessenger RNA splicing.

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‘Treasure trove’ of new CRISPR systems holds promise for genome editing

‘Politicians don’t understand science’: advisers give evidence at UK COVID inquiry

What the OpenAI drama means for AI progress — and safety

Aligning climate scenarios to emissions inventories shifts global benchmarks

Daily briefing: How AI brought back the Klimt masterpiece destroyed by Nazis

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This astronomy centre just achieved gender parity. Here’s how it happened

‘Treasure trove’ of new CRISPR systems holds promise for genome editing

The most powerful cosmic ray since the Oh-My-God particle puzzles scientists

‘Politicians don’t understand science’: advisers give evidence at UK COVID inquiry

These brain cells could influence how fast you eat — and when you stop

Climate loss-and-damage funding: how to get money to where it’s needed fast

Climate loss-and-damage funding: a mechanism to make it work

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Emissions scenarios and targets aligned to meet climate goals

Magnetic hopfion rings in new era for topology

JWST ends game of hide and seek with methane

Ancient DNA uncovers past migrations in California

Genes are often uninformative for dating species’ origins

People go the extra mile for food

From the archive: a juice extractor in an insect’s gut, and amateur radio telephony

Bright satellites are disrupting astronomy research worldwide

Divide and conquer: exploiting entropy to grow nanoscale barrier materials

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Phages overcome bacterial immunity via diverse anti-defence proteins

Structural basis of Gabija anti-phage defence and viral immune evasion

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