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  • Briefing Chat: What tickling a chimpanzee can tell us about the evolution of speech

    Briefing Chat: What tickling a chimpanzee can tell us about the evolution of speech
    2026/06/26

    Nature staff discuss how apes share a rhythm of laughter, and how AI use may degrade skills in medicine and computer science.


    00:32 Early evidence suggests that AI use causes skills to atrophy

    Nature: Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good


    06:42 Humans and chimps share a laugh

    Nature: Oo oo, ha ha: why humans and great apes giggle alike when tickled


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    12 分
  • Medical records could be revealed by AI training-data vulnerability

    Medical records could be revealed by AI training-data vulnerability
    2026/06/24

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    00:46 How sensitive information can be gleaned from medical AIs

    Research article: Knolle et al.


    Correction: The story about medical AI-data privacy incorrectly stated that the number of individuals at high risk of a membership inference attack increases as training-dataset size grows. It should have stated that the increase in risk occurs when the AI model increases in capacity and size.




    11:31 Research Highlights

    Nature: A long-lived butterfly’s secret to graceful ageing

    Nature: It slices! It dices! Sashimi-Bot handles seafood with ease





    13:57 Across the Universe, galaxies clump together more than physicists thought they should

    Research article: Labini & Galoppo


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    20 分
  • Briefing Chat: Testosterone and sperm may get a boost from obesity drugs

    Briefing Chat: Testosterone and sperm may get a boost from obesity drugs
    2026/06/19

    Nature staff discuss preliminary data on the effects of GLP-1 drugs on male fertility plus a two-year trial of a brain-computer interface.


    00:18 Brain-computer interface makes a life-changing impact

    Nature: At-home brain implant gives man with motor neuron disease his daily life back


    05:39 The possible benefits of obesity drugs on testosterone

    Nature: The latest benefit of obesity drugs: boosting testosterone and sperm quality


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    12 分
  • DNA from hunter-gatherer teeth reveals secrets of ancient plague

    DNA from hunter-gatherer teeth reveals secrets of ancient plague
    2026/06/17

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    00:45 Ancient evidence of deadly plague outbreaks

    Research article: Macleod et al.



    12:33 Research Highlights

    Nature: Bones of Iron Age skeleton were whittled into tools

    Nature: Giant crustacean of the deep sea steals a trick from bacteria



    14:52 A prototype atom interferometer

    Research article: Baynham et al.


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    27 分
  • Briefing Chat: The epic journey of Stonehenge’s central stone

    Briefing Chat: The epic journey of Stonehenge’s central stone
    2026/06/12

    In this episode:



    00:37 Evidence that Stonehenge's Altar Stone travelled by glacier

    BBC Science Focus: We may have just cracked one of Stonehenge's greatest mysteries



    05:44 Fossilized faeces reveal DNA from ancient ecosystem

    Nature: Ancient ground squirrels feasted on carcasses like ‘zombies of the Pleistocene’


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    11 分
  • Newly-discovered whale graveyard dates back millions of years

    Newly-discovered whale graveyard dates back millions of years
    2026/06/10

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    00:46 A giant, ancient whale necropolis

    Research article: Peng et al.

    News & Views: A vast whale necropolis has been found



    08:52 Research Highlights

    Nature: Babies’ birth weight improves with help of payments to parents

    Nature: Earliest signs of vision recorded in ancient sea-floor tracks



    11:11 Turning plant material into chemical building-blocks

    Research article: Mains et al.


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    22 分
  • Briefing chat: Spinosaurs with salt glands could have lived in marine environments

    Briefing chat: Spinosaurs with salt glands could have lived in marine environments
    2026/06/05

    In this episode:



    00:23 Fossil evidence that spinosaurs had an aquatic lifestyle

    Science: Some spinosaurs cried salty tears to thrive in brackish waters



    04:57 The explosive immune cells that kill in minutes

    Nature: Bang! Exploding immune cells splatter potent toxins everywhere


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    11 分
  • Your phone can use tiny skin-colour changes to measure your heart rate

    Your phone can use tiny skin-colour changes to measure your heart rate
    2026/06/03

    In this episode:



    00:57 How your smartphone’s camera could measure your heart rate

    Research article: Liao et al.



    08:55 Research Highlights

    Nature: A star gone rogue tears through the Galaxy

    Nature: Gold keeps glittering courtesy of surface chemistry



    11:04 Should you try something new in a restaurant? Maths has the answer

    Nature: Feynman solved the ‘restaurant dilemma’ 50 years ago — now a study confirms his mathematics


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    18 分