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Adapt VR in dental education: boosting preclinical skill and self-confidence - BDJ Open
1+ hour, 59+ min ago (1480+ words) BDJ Open volume12, Articlenumber:8 (2026) Cite this article The VR group achieved a higher mean laboratory score (6.31) than controls (3.93; p" Accordingly, the present study aims to evaluate the impact of the Adapt VR system on skill acquisition and self-confidence among dental students…...
During the course of my PhD, I’ve been relearning how to rest
6+ hour, 45+ min ago (825+ words) Ashley Moses is a neurosciences PhD Candidate at Stanford University, California. People with PhDs say they spent years during their studies feeling exhausted and lost their work'life balance. Credit: Getty I have just started the fourth year of my PhD....
Campus protests and civil disobedience: does academia have a problem with activism?
1+ day, 7+ min ago (1888+ words) Adam Levy is a science journalist based in London. In May 2024, Uli Beisel signed what she thought was a fairly innocuous petition. But it led to her face being printed in a national tabloid. This was after student demonstrators at…...
Do you have a side hustle alongside your PhD studies? Take Nature’s poll
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (328+ words) Dog walking is one way in which members of Generation Z are earning extra money on the side.Credit: Getty Among the youngest people in the workforce " members of Gen Z, which describes those born between 1997 and 2012 " 57% have a side…...
Six steps to protect researchers’ digital security
2+ day, 7+ min ago (545+ words) Virginia Gewin is a freelance writer based in Portland, Oregon. Academics around the world are increasingly under fire. In January 2025, the American Association of Colleges and Universities published a survey that found that 53% of US faculty members were worried that…...
Training large language models on narrow tasks can lead to broad misalignment
2+ day, 7+ min ago (1277+ words) Models are then evaluated on out-of-distribution free-form questions and often give malicious answers (right). These results provide some insight into the mechanisms of emergent misalignment, but substantial gaps remain in understanding why and under what conditions these effects occur. In…...
Three tips for scientific writing: a guide for graduate students
2+ day, 7+ min ago (457+ words) Courtney Pe'a-Lima is an associate director at the Biosciences Grant Writing Academy at Stanford University in California and a writing instructor at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Troy Dildine is a postdoctoral scholar in the department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative,…...
AI writing tools could lead scholars from low-income countries to erase their own voices
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (185+ words) University of Macau, Macau. Nature 649, 555 (2026) Don't assume that women's low retraction rates reflect male "boldness' The academic community failed Wikipedia for 25 years " now it might fail us AlphaFold can help African researchers to do cutting-edge structural biology Correspondence 13 JAN 26 AI…...
The academic community failed Wikipedia for 25 years — now it might fail us
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (453+ words) Dariusz Jemielniak is a professor of management at Kozminski University in Warsaw, Poland. He served on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees from 2015 to 2025. As the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia marks its 25th anniversary this month, the academic community must confront…...
Fresh starts: how to thrive when you leave academia
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (911+ words) Josie Glausiusz is a freelance science journalist who specializes in the Middle East. A career makeover can allow scientists to explore their passions.Credit: Getty Nick Sheron starts most days by strolling across his six-hectare farm with his two golden…...