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Published and featured the Ace paper on its cover
A robot beat elite human table tennis players under official competition rules. Sony AI's system, called Ace, returned topspin and backspin shots from professionals during peer-reviewed trials published on Nature's cover April 23—reaching expert-level play for the first time in a commonly played competitive physical sport.
Updated May 31
Published the Clover mechanism paper April 23, 2026
For billions of years bacteria have fought viruses, but until 2018, scientists could name only a handful of the tools they use—mostly restriction enzymes and CRISPR. The catalog has since grown to more than 150 defense systems, and on April 23 Nature added another: Clover, a bacterial system that starves invading viruses of DNA building blocks without poisoning the bacterium itself.
Published the discovery as January 2026 cover story
Since Santiago Ramón y Cajal mapped neurons in 1888, scientists assumed the brain optimizes wiring by taking the shortest path between connections. For over a century, that assumption held, until high-resolution brain imaging revealed neurons branch at right angles, sprout dead-end buds, and take seemingly inefficient routes—patterns the old math couldn't explain.
Updated May 29
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In 1989, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould argued that if you could rewind evolution and play it again, the results would be utterly different—humanity was a cosmic accident. A study published in Nature on November 12, 2025 offers the most comprehensive counterargument yet. It shows that 11 different animal lineages independently crawled out of the water across 487 million years and repeatedly evolved the same genetic solutions.
Updated May 27
Published the breakthrough research
Early humans struck pyrite against flint to spark fires in a Suffolk field 400,000 years ago—350,000 years before the previous oldest evidence. British Museum archaeologists found two pyrite fragments near a hearth littered with fire-cracked hand axes and sediment burned to 700°C, evidence that early Neanderthals made fire.
Updated May 19
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