Large language models can predict the results of social science experiments - Nature

Large language models can be used to estimate the results of social science experiments about as accurately as a group of human forecasters—even for experiments published after the...

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Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus - Nature

In the hippocampus, complex processing of sensory stimuli occurs even in the unconscious state.

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Why science needs the humanities more than ever

From AI to biotechnology, today’s scientific breakthroughs raise ethical and social challenges that technical expertise alone cannot solve.

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Make science more reliable: study people as they go about their lives

Researchers have long discussed the replication crisis. Now it’s time to tackle another problem in the behavioural sciences: generalizability.

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Mapping the neuronal building blocks of human language with language models - Nature

Wide-scale recordings reveal neurons in the human brain that encode fundamental components of language such as the grammatical relationships between words, their parts of speech and the...

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White matter micro- and macrostructure brain charts for the human lifespan - Nature

Integration of data representing 35,120 brain scans from diverse global studies enables construction of reference charts that define normative microstructural and macrostructural properties across the...

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Redesigning algorithms to intervene on social norm misperceptions during a national election - Nature

Engagement-based feeds amplify intergroup, moralized, emotional (IME) and toxic content relative to reverse-chronological feeds, and a diversified extremity algorithm reduces exposure to IME and toxic...

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Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which we publish

Registered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research.

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Why AI cannot do good science without humans

With the arrival of ‘AI scientists’, it’s as well to remember that human wisdom, empathy and sheer messiness are as much part of progress as are process and efficiency.

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Tough peer-review process? Your paper might end up being more highly cited

An AI-led analysis of publicly available peer-review reports links requests for major revisions with papers that end up having high impact.

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Sleep chart of biological ageing clocks in middle and late life - Nature

A cross-organ, multi-omics U-shaped relationship between sleep duration and biological ageing clocks highlights the potential of sleep optimization to promote healthy ageing, lower disease risk and ex...

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State media control influences large language models - Nature

Government-controlled media influences the output of large language models via their training data, and models queried in the languages of countries with lower media freedom show a stronger ...

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Racial diversity in higher education is associated with higher student salaries - Nature

A longitudinal study shows that racial diversity in higher education is associated with higher student salaries at graduation, indicating that policies to increase or leverage racial diversity enhance...

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Punctuated decline of human cooperation - Nature

Cooperation in group lending declines over time due to shifting behavioural motivations, briefly rebounds after loan restarts, then declines faster again, revealing systematic deviations from rational...

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Language models transmit behavioural traits through hidden signals in data - Nature

During model distillation, large language models can subtly transmit traits unrelated to the training data.

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Reliable research in the social and behavioural and sciences

Sweeping new investigations probe the replication, robustness and reproducibility of results across the behavioural and social sciences.

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Functional hierarchy of the human neocortex across the lifespan - Nature

fMRI data from individuals of a wide range of ages (from a few days to 100 years old) are used to map the key organizational axes of functional connectivity in the human cortex throughout the lifespan...

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A big-push community intervention reduced rates of child marriage by 80% - Nature

A community-wide intervention in northern Nigeria reduced rates of child marriage from 79% to 14%, showing that bundled, big-push approaches can dramatically shift entrenched behaviours.

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Parkinson’s disease affects network of brain regions that controls whole-body action

A network called SCAN shows abnormally high connectivity with deep brain structures in people with Parkinson’s disease.

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‘How to’ Comments

This ongoing Series of ‘How to’ Comments offers expert guidance and recommendations on a wide range of topics relevant to the broad readership of Nature Human ...

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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

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A roadmap for evaluating moral competence in large language models - Nature

This Perspective offers a roadmap for tackling the challenges of the facsimile problem, moral multidimensionality and moral pluralism in large language models.

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Synthesizing scientific literature with retrieval-augmented language models - Nature

A specialized, open-source, retrieval-augmented language model is introduced for answering scientific queries and synthesizing literature, the responses of which are shown to be preferred by human eva...

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Parkinson’s disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder - Nature

The substantia nigra and all Parkinson’s disease deep-brain stimulation targets are selectively connected to the somato-cognitive action network rather than to effector-specific motor regions.

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AI can turbocharge scientists’ careers — but limit their scope

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Distinct neuronal populations in the human brain combine content and context - Nature

Single-neuron recordings in humans reveal largely separate content and context neurons whose coordinated activity flexibly places memory items in context.

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Artificial intelligence tools expand scientists’ impact but contract science’s focus - Nature

Artificial intelligence boosts individual scientists’ output, citations and career progression, but collectively narrows research diversity and reduces collaboration, concentrating work in data-rich a...

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