Un nuevo modelo de OpenAI provoca un ataque “sin precedentes” contra otra plataforma de inteligencia artificial

Los creadores de ChatGPT probaban sus nuevas creaciones en un entorno aislado. Pero la máquina supo salir por su cuenta, en un escenario propio de la ciencia ficción

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Call for papers: The status of infectious diseases in Latin America: emerging, endemic, and multimorbidity

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Bacteria organise themselves to hitchhike across large distances

Microbes rarely travel alone. In any given environment, millions of microbial species compete with each other for resources while locked in an endless state of warfare […]

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Reason To Believe

How and why irrationality takes hold, and what do to about it.

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Nuestra mente ha evolucionado para sobrevivir, no para pensar racionalmente

Mientras los sesgos son estrategias adaptativas que nos salen solas, la racionalidad y el juicio crítico son conquistas humanas que precisan de entornos donde las creencias puedan revisarse sin que es...

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Shortly before his death, Oliver Sacks wrote an essay looking back on his seminal 1985 book. The essay appears for the first time as the preface to this brand new edition.

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The man who forgot himself: life before and after total amnesia

In 2019 Eric Lampaert woke up unable to recognise his friends, his parents, even his own name. After decades of anxiety, abandonment and bullying, was his mind just trying to shield him from his past?

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KEMRI-Wellcome (@kemriwellcome.bsky.social)

How does iron shape infection risk in Africa? 📚 New research shows African-specific genetic variants affect iron levels and susceptibility to severe malaria and bloodstream infections, highlighting the need for safer, targeted approaches to tackle iron deficiency and anaemia. 🔗: shorturl.at/zkL0G

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Tarteso, un reflejo en el Guadiana

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Phylogenomics of Asgard archaea reveals a unique blend of prokaryotic-like horizontal transfer and eukaryotic-like gene duplication - Nature Communications

The genomes of Asgard archaea, the closest prokaryotic relatives to eukaryotes, are larger than those of other archaea and contain multiple genes seemingly acquired from bacteria. Here, Manzano-Morale...

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Inaceptables insinuaciones del PP

Al asumir el discurso de Vox sobre un pucherazo imaginario, Feijóo contribuye a erosionar un proceso que debería ser el primero en defender

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RFK Jr. Hosts Meet-And-Greet With Infectious Diseases

WASHINGTON—Hailing the exclusive gathering as an opportunity to usher in an era of peace and goodwill, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hosted a lively meet-and-greet Thursday with a variety of ...

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Newly Discovered Microbe Turns Into a Cannibalistic 'Supergiant'

A newly discovered microbe has a strange Dr.

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You talkin’ to me?

Nature Microbiology - Public trust and policy impact depend on communication in local languages. Nonetheless, one language, English, dominates scientific publishing. Multilingual science...

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Interim Associate or Senior Editor (Clinical Infectious Diseases), Nature Communications

Job Title: Interim Associate or Senior Editor (Clinical Infectious Diseases), Nature Communications Location: London or Pune – Hybrid working model Application deadline: 10th June - Apply ASAP please as candidates will be considered as they apply. About Springer Nature Springer Nature is one of the leading publishers of research in the world. We publish the largest number of journals and books and are a pioneer in open research. Through our leading brands, trusted for more than 180 years, we provide technology-enabled products, platforms and services that help researchers to uncover new ideas and share their discoveries, health professionals to stay at the forefront of medical science, and educators to advance learning. We are proud to be part of progress, working together with the communities we serve to share knowledge and bring greater understanding to the world. For more information, please visit about.springernature.com and follow @SpringerNature. 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Antimicrobial resistance | Nature Outlook

Pathogens are becoming resistant to antibiotics. Scientists are working to slow the process and replenish the medicinal armoury.

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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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An ancient genome of Streptococcus pyogenes from a pre-Columbian Bolivian mummy - Nature Communications

Streptococcus pyogenes is a human pathogen responsible for a range of diseases. Here, the authors reconstruct an ancient S. pyogenes genome from a pre-Columbian Bolivian mummy, supporting that the pat...

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La búsqueda genética de la expedición Franklin

En la primavera de 1845 partió desde Inglaterra la expedición Franklin, posiblemente la más trágica y desafortunada de todos los tiempos.

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Cazurros, coreanos y otros foriatos: la historia por escribir de la Asturias inmigrante - Nortes | Centradas en la periferia

En la década de los 60 el 13% de la población asturiana había nacido fuera de la provincia, histórica receptora de migrantes.

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