The world's gone wild for Kimi K3 -- here's what scientists think 🧪🤖 By my excellent Asia Pacific colleagues @mohanabasu.bsky.social & @rfieldmouse.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Does China’s latest AI model finally equal US rivals? What scientists think

‘Kimi K3’ can match or outperform cutting-edge models, says Moonshot AI. But its large size might limit uptake.

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1/6 Lots to like in @jamesmodonnell.bsky.social's MIT Tech Rev story on @psiquantum.bsky.social www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/14/1... 🧪⚛️ But I wanted to flag one thing: in it the company says journalists misquoted them on aims to make an 'operational' quantum computer by 2027. Not in our case

Kings Cross is increasingly awash with AI firms & London's taking a leading role in AI safety. But a caveat: it's mainly the kind of safety that cares about models from being used in cyberattacks or going rogue, not societal impacts like inequality or AI psychosis www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A global capital for AI safety is emerging — and it's not in Silicon Valley

The United Kingdom is gaining influence through its growing AI-safety ecosystem.

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Scientists have caught Earth in the action of splitting apart at the seams, witnessing fresh oceanic crust forming in real time. Very cool 🧪 by @castelvecchi.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Ocean floor witnessed splitting apart for the first time — releasing lava

Scientists observed a mid-ocean ridge widen in real time, recording several metres of sea-floor motion and huge lava outflows.

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If you're intrigued about the still new-ish ARIA, this one is for you 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41... I sat down with the UK agency's new CEO, Kathleen Fisher, (who joins from DARPA) to hear how it all works & who makes a good ARIA researcher (not someone who wants to be left alone apparently!)

How to advance revolutionary science: high turnover, high risk and a licence to fail

Kathleen Fisher reveals the recipe for funding innovative science that she brings to the UK Advanced Research and Invention Agency.

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Awful news that RPN is closing🧪 @smclondon.bsky.social has blog on its huge value to research www.sciencemediacentre.org/in-praise-of... I'd add I'm hugely grateful to (then) Research Fortnight for my first journalism job. So many of us got a great education there: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Researc...

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Very sad to be sharing this news: Research Professional News to discontinue publication at end of 2026. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...

I spoke to Darío Gil, US under secretary for science at the DoE, about the country's big push of AI in science 🧪🤖⚛️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump has big AI and quantum ambitions: this scientist’s job is to make them reality

Darío Gil knows that researchers are sceptical of the massive US artificial-intelligence push — he’s asking them to keep an open mind.

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With US science in unprecedented turmoil, can Europe step up to become the free world's science superpower? We crunched the data on Europe's strengths and weaknesses, plans & what headwinds the bloc faces 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Europe as science superpower: what it will take to rival the US and China

Amid chaos in US science and geopolitical turmoil, Europe wants to position itself as a research haven — but questions about funding and innovation remain.

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The first working nuclear clocks are here! 🧪⚛️🚨 As well as someday rivalling the best optical clocks, these should make for super-robust devices to take into the field & already allow physicists to monitor the fundamental forces of nature, in search of dark matter www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The first ticking ‘nuclear clocks’ are here — what can they do?

Two research teams have created a new, long-awaited type of timekeeper.

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A look at where we are in science, 10 years from the Brexit vote. The UK is edging back into Horizon Europe (and from next year will be part of Erasmus+) but the country's role as a cornerstone of European research remains much diminished. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Brexit tore apart European science — now the research rifts are healing

The UK's share of EU research funding is climbing, but lost networks will be harder to recover.

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CFS published 5 papers last week outlining their "early 2030s" fusion power plant & physics Researchers say it's great they're publishing & plans are promising. But the papers far from "confirm" the plant will deliver net electricity Lots of engineering Qs remain ⚛️🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nuclear-fusion firm says plant will deliver electricity to grid – but big questions remain

Commonwealth Fusion Systems published several papers detailing the design of its ARC fusion power plant.

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Measuring the gravitational constant, BIG G, is one of the hardest experiments ever. And it's still driving physicists bananas, hundreds of years after the first attempts 🧪⚛ www.youtube.com/shorts/vksqp...

Is this the hardest physics experiment?

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"Someone, somewhere, has taken the decision to defund astrophysics research in the UK, but no-one seems quite sure who that was, or why." The latest on the impact of the catastrophic funding cuts to UK astrophysics, by me, in @natastron.nature.com 👩‍🔬🧪🔭 ✒️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

First science publisher sues an AI firm as a named plaintiff. There seems to be little doubt now that scientific papers, like books and webpages, were used to train LLMs. But whether this counts as copyright infringement is for the courts to decide www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Elsevier vs Meta: first science publisher sues over scraped research papers

Science publishing giant Elsevier has joined a class-action lawsuit against Meta that alleges the reproduction of copyrighted works in developing the Llama AI model.

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The @erc.europa.eu has rolled back a controversial policy that would have extended how long researchers have to wait to re-apply after a failed application. Good to see the ERC listening 💪 But it's far from clear how the council will now deal with the grant deluge 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Prestigious European science funder scraps stricter rules after researcher backlash

The tough new policy was introduced to curb submissions, but drew criticism from researchers.

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Anomalies in physics are an endangered species. But an exciting one is growing in data from @lhcb.bsky.social🧪⚛️ It's a discrepancy in the angles that particles fly out of B meson 'penguin' decays & at 4 sigma🤞 What's a penguin decay & how could new physics affect it? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The exotic particles that could finally break the Standard Model

‘Penguin’ decays from CERN’s latest Large Hadron Collider experiment hint at weird new physics.

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Have grants become more competitive lately? 🧪 At least some of the uptick in submissions (that we've reported on @nature.com) seems driven by AI-assisted proposal writing -- funders, like journals, are flooded Great comment piece by @jameswilsdon.bsky.social & co: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Could agentic AI topple grant-funding systems?

Funders must take action before an increase in submission of high-quality proposals written using AI models makes it impossible to sort the wheat from the chaff.

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Should you worry about AI killing us all? I looked at the evidence so you don't have to 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com Ft. @garymarcus.bsky.social @sashamtl.bsky.social @gleave.me @andreamiotti.bsky.social @anthonyaguirre.bsky.social @ghadfield.bsky.social among others!

AI doom warnings are getting louder. Are they realistic?

Researchers are increasingly sounding the alarm that artificial intelligence could end humanity. But such doomsday warnings carry their own risks.

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How strong is the gravitational constant big G? It reigns across the Universe yet we still don't know it beyond 3 sig figs! Like climbing Everest, metrologists measure the maddening number because the challenge is there My @nature.com story on the latest results: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How big is Big G? Mystery deepens after ten-year effort to measure gravity’s strength

Physicists have spent the past decade trying to pin down the elusive fundamental constant, to no avail.

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Can quantum computers be used to improve human health? ⚛️🧪 Seems like a huge leap, but researchers are making inroads: algorithms that simulate light-sensitive drugs and map differences in genomes are being trialled on small quantum systems. My latest in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

China's gov wants its AI scientists to avoid relying on Western tech & collaborations, which could be behind CAST's decision to still boycott NeurIPS despite its u-turn over sanctions. Might we see China start up its own NeurIPS-level conference? 🤖🧪 More here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Boycott of major AI conference exposes a growing US–China divide

China-based researchers make up more than half of all lead authors at NeurIPS.

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We made a short vid about the world's first antimatter delivery. Just 92 antiprotons but an epic achievement! ⚛️🧪 How do you transport something that annihilates whenever it touches matter? Find out here: www.youtube.com/shorts/O4_XU... @cern.bsky.social @nature.com

Antimatter goes for a drive

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@davidbflower.bsky.social Hi David, I'd be keen to get some thoughts from you for a quick news story. Please DM me back if you are interested! Thanks

Antimatter delivery anyone? I first wrote about plans to transport this wildly volatile stuff (looking at another @cern.bsky.social expt) in 2018 They've finally done it! Amazing ⚛️🧪 This tiny sample of 92 antiprotons is a huge world first My @nature.com story here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Antimatter has been transported for the first time ever — in the back of CERN's truck

Physicists have succeeded for the first time in transporting the most expensive and most volatile substance on Earth — antimatter.

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This squinty eye is telling you to go watch my first tiktok 🧪⚛️ It's on making the fattest ever Schrödinger's 🐈‍⬛ (& made with the fab Maren Hunsberger). More bitesized physics to come! www.tiktok.com/@nature/vide...

You may have heard of Schrödinger's cat, but did you know it represents one of the thorniest problems in quantum physics? Where is the boundary between the quantum and classical worlds? This recent ex...

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Hard to believe that static electricity is still a big mystery — Is it the electrons, ions or bits of material that transfer the charge? Why do some materials charge positively & others negatively? What happens when 2 samples of the same material come into contact? 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Static electricity is a big mystery — a jolt of fresh research could help to solve it

The familiar phenomenon has puzzled researchers for centuries, but experiments are finally making sense of its unruly behaviours.

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Big news: @nature.com has finally launched its TikTok page! Check out my colleagues Maren Hunsberger with a deep dive on artificial lungs and @shamini.bsky.social talking about an acoustic robot so small it could swim around inside your body. Follow us for much more content to come 🫶

Supernovae are bright. This one is EXTRA bright. Why?! It's hard to study what's behind these super-bright cosmic explosions, but a wobble in the signal from this one gave it away🧪🔭 Here's the story from me with funky 90s graphics from the fab @danjfox.bsky.social With🙏to @drjrfarah.bsky.social

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NEW FILM UP youtu.be/mSoIMgFTyPc why is this supernova so bright? why do the animations look like they're from 1998?

This was a very quick test (and also using AI!) but it demonstrates just how easy it still is to get models to help you to do bad things -- in this case, to clog up the scientific literature. While many LLMs refused requests at first, they were often worn down 🤖🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud

Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds.

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Hard drives fail after a few years -- ever thought about writing your data into glass instead? Microsoft has developed a ready-to-deploy system which, while pricey to read and write, could save data for millennia, with minimal storage costs 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Microsoft team creates ‘revolutionary’ data storage system that lasts for millennia

Researchers use mini plasma explosions to encode the equivalent of two million books into a coaster-sized device. The method could preserve research data for millennia with minimal storage costs.

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