A guide for graduate students

Graduate students often struggle with large, long-term writing projects.Credit: westend61/Getty Many of us fear the blank page. Writing is as ...
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Mosaic lateral heterostructures in two-dimensional perovskite

Sahoo, P., Memaran, S., Xin, Y., Balicas, L. & Gutiérrez, R. One-pot growth of two-dimensional lateral heterostructures via sequential edge-epitaxy. ...
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Enriching the representation of the African genome through the AGenDA project

Sidney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa M. Ramsay, F. ...
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Do you have a side business alongside your doctoral studies?

Dog walking is one way members of Generation Z earn extra money.Credit: Getty Among the youngest people in the workforce ...
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AI can stimulate the careers of scientists, but it limits their scope

Nature, published online: 14 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00162-2 The use of artificial intelligence can enhance the output, at the expense of ...
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Trapping of single atoms in metasurface optical tweezer arrays

Kaufman, A. M. & Ni, K.-K. Quantum science with optical tweezer arrays of ultracold atoms and molecules. Nat. Phys. 17, ...
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Cancer may evade immune defenses by hijacking mitochondria

Mitochondria produce energy for the cell, but they have a number of other important roles.Source: Professors B. Mota and T. ...
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Faulty AI models quickly go off track

Large language models (LLMs) have developed broad and powerful capabilities, but they sometimes exhibit strange failures when interacting with users. ...
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A nowhere-to-hide mechanism ensures complete piRNA-directed DNA methylation

Aravin, A. A., Sachidanandam, R., Girard, A., Fejes-Toth, K. & Hannon, G. J. Developmentally regulated piRNA clusters implicate MILI in ...
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Why can “harmless” germs be deadly to some people?

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