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How climate change might affect tea – Nature
The automatic-design tools that are changing synthetic biology – Nature
The world’s strongest MRI machines are pushing human imaging to new limits – Nature
How cerebral organoids are guiding brain-cancer research and therapies – Nature
Speaking in code: how to program by voice – Nature
Huntington’s Disease: 4 big questions – Nature
The time has come for a better breast pump – Neo.Life
Machine learning gets a journal for interactive figures – Nature

Image: Goh, G. Why momentum really works. Distill (2017)
Sometimes it’s hard to understand someone else’s research through a static scientific paper. Across countless universities and companies, at whiteboards and cafeteria tables, you’ll find scientists in animated conversations explaining their research to one another, asking questions, playing around with each other’s data: in short, interacting. Across the internet in recent years, people have extended these explanations to include interactive graphics and code.
Now a web-only machine-learning journal called Distill aims to provide a formal home for these interactive graphical explanations.
Parents beat clinicians at detecting autism signs in infants – Spectrum

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Parents who have one child with an autism diagnosis can more accurately spot signs of the condition in their younger child at 12 months of age than clinicians can, according to a new study1. The advantage fades by 18 months of age, however.
The findings suggest that surveying knowledgeable parents could move up the date of autism diagnosis, enabling therapy to begin sooner.