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| Open AccessGlobal supply chains amplify economic costs of future extreme heat risk
A global high-resolution disaster footprint analytical model is developed to show substantial socioeconomic impacts from climatic change-driven heat stress through the global supply chain by 2060 due to direct and indirect effects on health and labour productivity.
- Yida Sun
- , Shupeng Zhu
- & Dabo Guan
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Artificial intelligence and illusions of understanding in scientific research
The proliferation of artificial intelligence tools in scientific research risks creating illusions of understanding, where scientists believe they understand more about the world than they actually do.
- Lisa Messeri
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Remote collaboration fuses fewer breakthrough ideas
Analysis of research articles and patent applications shows that members of teams that collaborate remotely are less likely to make breakthrough discoveries than members of on-site teams.
- Yiling Lin
- , Carl Benedikt Frey
- & Lingfei Wu
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Users choose to engage with more partisan news than they are exposed to on Google Search
Ecologically valid data collected during the 2018 and 2020 US elections show that exposure to and engagement with partisan or unreliable news on Google Search are driven not primarily by algorithmic curation but by users’ own choices.
- Ronald E. Robertson
- , Jon Green
- & David Lazer
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| Open AccessCOVID-19 amplified racial disparities in the US criminal legal system
A study shows that, although the number of incarcerated people in the USA decreased during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the fraction of incarcerated Black and Latino individuals increased.
- Brennan Klein
- , C. Brandon Ogbunugafor
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| Open AccessFour ways blue foods can help achieve food system ambitions across nations
A study proposes four ways in which foods sourced in aquatic environments can contribute to healthier, more environmentally sustainable and equitable food systems, and examines the relevance of these ambitions to nations.
- Beatrice I. Crona
- , Emmy Wassénius
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| Open AccessBiomolecular analyses enable new insights into ancient Egyptian embalming
Philological analysis of labels and instructions, together with gas chromatography–mass spectrometry analysis of residues on vessels recovered from a 26th Dynasty embalming workshop at Saqqara, Egypt provide insights into ancient Egyptian embalming practices.
- Maxime Rageot
- , Ramadan B. Hussein
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| Open AccessLidar reveals pre-Hispanic low-density urbanism in the Bolivian Amazon
Two remarkably large sites in southwest Amazonia, belonging to the Casarabe culture, include complex civic-ceremonial architecture and large water-management infrastructure, representing a type of tropical low-density urbanism that has not previously been described in Amazonia.
- Heiko Prümers
- , Carla Jaimes Betancourt
- & Martin Schaich
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Matters Arising |
Aquaculture will continue to depend more on land than sea
- Wenbo Zhang
- , Ben Belton
- & Max Troell
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The effect of rainfall changes on economic production
A global assessment shows that increases in the number of wet days and extreme daily rainfall adversely affect economic growth, particularly in high-income nations and via the services and manufacturing sectors.
- Maximilian Kotz
- , Anders Levermann
- & Leonie Wenz
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Quantifying social organization and political polarization in online platforms
A new method quantifies the social makeup of online communities, and applying it to 14 years of commenting patterns on Reddit shows increased polarization in 2016, driven by new users to the platform.
- Isaac Waller
- & Ashton Anderson
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Integrating explanation and prediction in computational social science
The combination of computational and social sciences requires the integration of explanatory and predictive approaches into ‘integrative modelling’, according to Hofman and colleagues.
- Jake M. Hofman
- , Duncan J. Watts
- & Tal Yarkoni
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Human social sensing is an untapped resource for computational social science
The ability of people to understand the thoughts and actions of others—known as social sensing—can be combined with computational social science to advance research into human sociality.
- Mirta Galesic
- , Wändi Bruine de Bruin
- & Tamara van der Does
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Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass
Estimates of global total biomass (the mass of all living things) and anthopogenic mass (the mass embedded in inanimate objects made by humans) over time show that we are roughly at the timepoint when anthropogenic mass exceeds total biomass.
- Emily Elhacham
- , Liad Ben-Uri
- & Ron Milo
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The effect of large-scale anti-contagion policies on the COVID-19 pandemic
Analyses of COVID-19 infection rates show that non-pharmaceutical interventions achieved large, beneficial and measurable health outcomes in China, South Korea, Italy, Iran, France and the United States; these results may inform decisions on whether or when these interventions should be deployed, intensified or lifted.
- Solomon Hsiang
- , Daniel Allen
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Population flow drives spatio-temporal distribution of COVID-19 in China
Modelling of population flows in China enables the forecasting of the distribution of confirmed cases of COVID-19 and the identification of areas at high risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission at an early stage.
- Jayson S. Jia
- , Xin Lu
- & Nicholas A. Christakis
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Hidden resilience and adaptive dynamics of the global online hate ecology
The dynamics of interactions between hate-orientated networks on different online platforms is characterized, and a mathematical model predicts that policing on one online platform can make matters worse and generate ‘darker’ parts of the Internet.
- N. F. Johnson
- , R. Leahy
- & S. Wuchty
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Books & Arts |
Molecular biology: Seed of revolution
Michael A. Goldman hails the first English translation of the three-man paper that launched molecular biology.
- Michael A. Goldman
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Career Brief |
International funding
International graduate student fellowship aims to identify future scientific leaders.
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Interdisciplinary studies: Seeking the right toolkit
Many researchers are exploring the boundaries of established disciplines. But does this cutting-edge approach lead to job opportunities?
- Bryn Nelson
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Cultivating new talent
Concerns about food shortages, land use, climate change and biodiversity have created a huge need for interdisciplinary researchers focused on agriculture. Virginia Gewin investigates the opportunities.
- Virginia Gewin
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