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Nom nom nom … stopScientists have identified brain cells in mice that control how quickly the rodents eat, and when they stop. Two cell types in a region of the brainstem called the caudal nucleus of the solitary tract receive signals from both the gut and the mouth. Activity in one cell type — PRLH neurons — ramps up as the mouse's gut fills with food and ceases when the animal stops lapping at its meal. Activating the PRLH neurons slowed down the mouse's chomping. Signals from the gut to the other cell type (GCG neurons) control when mice stop eating. "The signals from the mouth are controlling how fast you eat, and the signals from the gut are controlling how much you eat," says neurobiologist and study co-author Zachary Knight. Nature | 4 min readReference: Nature Metabolism paper | |||||
How an astronomy centre reached gender parityAn Australian astronomy research centre has achieved gender parity across all its personnel with a five-year programme of education and affirmative action. Education, female leadership and gender-balanced hiring policies were key, say leaders — and the approach could be applied to other organizations. Nature | 5 min read | |||||
ChatGPT generates fake clinical-trial dataResearchers have used the technology that underlies the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT to create fake data to support an unverified scientific claim. The ability of AI to fabricate convincing data adds to concern among researchers and journal editors about the technology's impact on research integrity. "Our aim was to highlight that, in a few minutes, you can create a data set that is not supported by real original data, and it is also opposite or in the other direction compared to the evidence that are available," says eye surgeon and study co-author Giuseppe Giannaccare. Nature | 6 min readReference: JAMA Ophthalmology paper | |||||
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How AI can bring back lost masterpiecesDozens of studies are proving the power of AI to shed new light on fine-art paintings and drawings, argues David Stork, the author of Pixels and Paintings: Foundations of Computer-Assisted Connoisseurship. For example, neural networks have been used to recreate parts of Gustav Klimt's lost painting, Medicine, from preparatory sketches and photographs. "Known artworks from the Western canon alone that have been lost to fire, flood, earthquakes or war would fill the walls of every public museum in the world," writes Stork. Recovering them could restore and complete our global cultural heritage. Nature | 7 min read | |||||
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Prejudice colours our views on migrationMany of us have opinions about immigration, but most of us don't fully understand it, suggests sociologist Hein de Haas in his impressively wide-ranging book How Migration Really Works. By busting myths that surround human mobility, de Haas provides a welcome corrective to common misconceptions, writes reviewer and migration scholar Alan Gamlen. "But with migration patterns shifting as the world rocks in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, it's unclear for how long his conclusions will hold true," writes Gamlen. Nature | 7 min read | |||||
How to make 'loss and damage' workMoney for regions battered by climate-change-related disasters needs to be made available quickly and be accessible to people on the ground, write six scholars, including the late, influential climate scientist Saleemul Huq. The Green Climate Fund — the world's largest existing fund for supporting climate mitigation and adaptation — provides lessons for how the loss-and-damage fund should operate. Nature | 11 min read | |||||
Quote of the day"It is a concern of mine and my scientific colleagues that whereas in the past you could make the assumption that students would leave school able to do certain practical things — cutting things out, making things — that is no longer the case."Surgical educator Roger Kneebone decries a decline in manual dexterity in up-and-coming surgeons in the digital age. BBC | 3 min read) | |||||
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