About 40% of the world’s land surface is classed as drylands1 — deserts and water-scarce grasslands, shrublands and savannahs. Life can be tough for the more than two billion people that live there. In Chinguetti, Mauritania, Saharan dunes push into streets and courtyards, burying homes and forcing residents to move to other towns. In Mongolia,…
Credit: Marko Nikolic/Alamy Dubious data sets are being used to train artificial-intelligence models that are designed to predict people’s risk of stroke and diabetes, researchers report in a preprint1 on medRxiv. Some of the models seem to have been used in clinical settings although it’s not clear whether this has led to flawed diagnoses. At…
Nature, Published online: 15 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01195-3 Efforts to boost tree cover and restore degraded land globally need stable funding and time to learn from failure. Source link
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You have full access to this article via your institution. Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Antibodies (three-lobed structures, artist’s impression) that attack a person’s own tissues can lead to autoimmune disease.Credit: Ruslanas Baranauskas/SPL A woman with an ultra-rare combination of three…
Researchers at the State University of Campinas, in Brazil, noticed in February that virus samples had gone missing from a high-security biosafety laboratory.Credit: Leandro Ferreira/Fotoarena via Zuma Press Brazil’s federal police arrested a researcher late last month for allegedly taking samples of viruses from a high-security biosafety laboratory at a leading Brazilian university. The researcher,…
Nature, Published online: 14 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01201-8 Storms that cross exceptionally warm ocean waters intensify more quickly and do more damage than storms that do not. Source link
The number of publications in life, physical and Earth sciences that mention AI grew by a factor of almost 30 from 2010 to 2025.Credit: 4kodiak/Getty In an indication of how quickly scientists are embracing artificial intelligence, the number of publications in the natural sciences that mention AI grew by almost 30-fold from 2010 to 2025,…
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Graduate students in the field of quantum computing are among those to receive Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) awards this year.Credit: gorodenkoff/Getty In an unexpected turnaround, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) on Sunday handed out a record 2,599 of its prestigious graduate fellowships to young researchers — after briefly slashing the number to a…