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What matters in science |  View this email in your browser Friday 22 December 2023 Hello Nature readers, Today, we marvel at polar-bear-inspired knitwear, learn about the robot chemist powered by large language models and discover ten of this year's best science books. This is our last daily Briefing until the new year. We'll return to our usual routine on Monday 8 January 2024. Each strand of polar bear fur has a porous core with dozens of tiny air pockets that prevent heat from conducting away. (Belfalah S...

What matters in science |  View this email in your browser Thursday 21 December 2023 Hello Nature readers, Today, we find out why some doctors are criticizing a commercial cancer test, learn that forest fires are a significant source of global emissions and ponder whether the Universe is preordained. The tiny nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans is under certain conditions attracted to urine samples from people with cancer. (Sinclair Stammers/Science Photo Library) Sci...

What matters in science |  View this email in your browser Wednesday 20 December 2023 Hello Nature readers, Today we learn that people have had a shocking impact on bird species, discover that vaccines protect children from long COVID and explore how sexism wastes scientific funding. The Hawaiian crow, or ʻalalā ( Corvus hawaiiensis ), has been pushed to the brink of extinction by waves of human migration through the Pacific. It now exists only in captive breeding programmes. (ZSSD/Minden Pictures via Alamy) ...