From autonomous vehicles to facial recognition, computer vision is key to many applications involving artificial intelligence. But the visual data used to train AI models are frequently problematic — ...

Two papers in this week’s issue focus on the melting ice sheets. In one, Nicholas Golledge and his colleagues examine the cascading effects of melt from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Using ...

The vibrant colours seen on butterfly wings or peacock feathers are examples of structural coloration, which occurs when micro- or nanoscale structured surfaces interfere with visible light. In this ...

RFK Jr’s vaccine advisory panel will be discussing the inclusion of adjuvants in childhood vaccinations this week. Here’s what’s at stake.

From autonomous vehicles to facial recognition, computer vision is key to many applications involving artificial intelligence. But the visual data used to train AI models are frequently problematic — ...

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Nature ’s reporters and editors aim to work to the highest journalistic standards of fairness and objectivity, independence, accuracy and accountability, and integrity.

Tying knots in surgical sutures requires precise amounts of force — too little force and the sutured wound will gape and leak, too much and the wound will bloat and blood flow becomes restricted.

Researchers are among those who feel uneasy about the unrestrained use of their intellectual property in training commercial large language models. Firms and regulators need to agree the rules of ...

The explosion in generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as large language models has been powered by the vast sets of human-generated data used to train them. As these tools continue to ...

Fossil fuels supply most of the world’s energy and are the basis of many key products used in everyday life, but they are also a major source of carbon dioxide emissions. Although renewable energy has ...