British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted

As UK police embrace the AI revolution, a WIRED investigation reveals the messy inside story of one region’s experiment with ...

These tiny genetic fragments may be critical for telling a brain when to rest

The altered presence of tiny fragments of neuronal genes, called microexons, causes hyperarousal in zebrafish. This is the ...

Modeling nuclear fusion at lightning speed

As we scour and scorch the Earth for deeper wells of energy, investors and government agencies are pouring billions into ...

This New DNA Test Solves Rare Disease Mysteries That Standard Genetics Misses

A new long-read DNA test improves rare disease diagnosis, replaces multiple existing tests, and could become the preferred ...
Nature

‘Megacluster’ of genes enables bacteria to make potent antibiotic mixture

All of the enzymes required for a microorganism to synthesize a natural product are encoded by a self-contained, continuous genetic unit known as a biosynthetic gene cluster (BGC) 9. The diversity of ...

Genomic tool highly effective at detecting rare disease diagnoses

A newly developed open-source tool designed for rigorous reanalysis of genomic data is highly effective at detecting new rare disease diagnoses. The tool's ability to frequently and automatically ...
Nature

Will AI spark a scientific renaissance — or a diffuse monoculture?

Xizhe Zhang is a professor working across computer science and medicine at the Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University and the School of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, Nanjing ...