AI linked to boom in biomedical papers, infrared contact lenses, and is Earth's core leaking?
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🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
00:33 Was a boom in papers driven by AI?
A spike in papers formulaically analysing a public data set has sparked worries that AI is being used to generate low quality and potentially misleading analyses.
Nature: AI linked to explosion of low-quality biomedical research papers
08:07 Lenses that give humans infrared vision
Researchers in China have created contact lenses that can allow humans to see infrared light, which could help with search and rescue missions, sending secret messages and even surgery.
Nature: These contact lenses give people infrared vision — even with their eyes shut
14:17 Does the Earth's core have a leak?
Geologists have uncovered the strongest evidence yet that Earth's core is leaking. Rocks from Hawaii were found to contain isotopes of a rare element, which suggests the material originally came from the core. More work will need to be done to rule out other explanations.
Nature: Is Earth’s core leaking? Volcanic rocks provide strongest evidence yet
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Nature Podcast. This week on the show, we're doing something a little bit different. We've got two brilliant hosts with me today as we talk about a couple of papers that have been highlighted in the Nature Briefing. So I am your host, Nick Pertridge Howe. And with me today is Charney Bundell. Yeah, I'm here, ready to talk about some science. |
| 0:22.3 | And Lizzie Gibney. |
| 0:23.4 | Hello, good to be here. |
| 0:24.7 | Well, it's great to have you both here as well. |
| 0:27.3 | So, who wants to go first today? |
| 0:29.3 | We've got lots of exciting science. |
| 0:30.8 | Charmne is looking at me. |
| 0:31.7 | I'm looking keen. I'm really into this paper. Not that it's found a good thing, but I think it's a really interesting study. |
| 0:39.5 | So I've been reading about this in Nature, and it's an article that was published in PLOS Biology. |
| 0:45.0 | And it's about, well, it's about maybe AI being used. |
| 0:50.0 | Well, it's hard to prove, right? |
| 0:52.0 | Has AI written a bunch of papers? |
| 0:54.6 | Well, they're not saying, like, yep, look for the telltale signs. |
| 0:57.9 | This was definitely AI. |
| 0:59.3 | But they are looking at some patterns. |
| 1:01.5 | They've analysed over 300 papers that have used a specific data set. |
| 1:07.4 | And they've come up with some reasons that they think it could well be that we are |
| 1:12.8 | currently seeing basically an explosion of poor quality AI papers using this is one particular |
| 1:19.0 | public data set. And this is always like the fear, isn't it, that AI is going to be used |
| 1:23.4 | to like churn out a bunch of papers. I think Lizzie, you've written about this. But I guess |
| 1:27.3 | it is |
| 1:27.7 | hard to prove and maybe someone will be using AI just to help with their language or, you know, |
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