Richard Holmes celebrates Mitchell’s pedagogic fire and salty opinions on the bicentenary of her birth. | Continue reading
Evidence-Based Dentistry delivers the best available evidence on the latest developments in oral health. We evaluate the evidence and provide guidance concerning the value of the author's conclusions. We keep dentistry up to date with new approaches, exploring a wide range of the … | Continue reading
Here’s how PhD students can prepare for different careers, and how lab heads can help. | Continue reading
Cell arrangement in the plane of epithelia is well studied, but its three-dimensional packing is largely unknown. Here the authors model curved epithelia and predict that cells adopt a geometrical shape they call “scutoid”, resulting in different apical and basal neighbours, and … | Continue reading
Irrigation increases the intensity of heatwaves over the North China Plain but how this will be exacerbated by climate change has not been quantified. Here the authors show that irrigation enhances magnitude of extreme wet-bulb temperature and intensity of heatwaves in this regio … | Continue reading
Long-awaited EPA proposal would also remove California's ability to set its own tough carbon targets. | Continue reading
Successive fusion of yeast chromosomes is used to produce a single-chromosome strain that is viable, albeit with slightly reduced fitness. | Continue reading
Research has finally generated the tools to attribute heatwaves and downpours to global warming. | Continue reading
The application and development of machine-learning methods used in experiments at the frontiers of particle physics (such as the Large Hadron Collider) are reviewed, including recent advances based on deep learning. | Continue reading
A memristor-based hardware and software system that uses a tantalum oxide memristor crossbar can be used to solve static and time-evolving partial differential equations at high precision, and to simulate an argon plasma reactor. | Continue reading
John Archibald praises a compelling guide to the past 3 billion years — and its molecular historians. | Continue reading
Track vehicles to link tolls with demand and cut congestion, urge Peter Cramton, R. Richard Geddes and Axel Ockenfels. | Continue reading
This Review Article examines the development of in-memory computing using resistive switching devices. | Continue reading
A special-purpose holography computing board, which uses eight large-scale field-programmable gate arrays, can be used to generate 108-pixel holograms that can be updated at a video frame rate. | Continue reading
Stephen Cave and Kanta Dihal revisit the extraordinary history of cultural responses to automata. | Continue reading
Algorithms that pit fraudster against detective find a home in quantum computers. | Continue reading
Scientists are racing to stamp out the disease in southeast Asia before unstoppable strains spread. | Continue reading
Cell arrangement in the plane of epithelia is well studied, but its three-dimensional packing is largely unknown. Here the authors model curved epithelia and predict that cells adopt a geometrical shape they call “scutoid”, resulting in different apical and basal neighbours, and … | Continue reading
Atoms can exhibit wave-like behaviour to form matter waves. Such waves have been used to model the basic processes that underpin how light interacts with matter, providing an experimental platform for future research. | Continue reading
Gene discovery and polygenic predictions from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals. | Continue reading
Nature talks to Brent Hecht, who says peer reviewers must ensure that researchers consider negative societal consequences of their work. | Continue reading
Some biotech companies now eschew traditional publication in peer-reviewed journals. Does it matter? | Continue reading
A widely-assumed principle of chemical reactivity is that, for elementary reactions, higher activation barriers lead to slower reactions. Here, the authors show that some intramolecular electron transfer processes become faster as their apparent activation energies increase, cont … | Continue reading
As the development of treatments for Alzheimer’s disease continues to stumble, is it time for researchers to broaden their list of the condition’s potential causes? | Continue reading
An observation decades in the making confirms predictions about how light behaves in an immense gravitational field. | Continue reading
Ducks, one of the most common domestic fowls, originated from mallards. Here, the authors perform whole-genome sequencing of mallards, indigenous-breed ducks, and Pekin ducks, as well as 1026 ducks from a population generated by wild × domestic crosses to identify selection signa … | Continue reading
Top court’s ruling threatens research on gene-edited crops in European Union. | Continue reading
Reserves of cobalt and nickel used in electric-vehicle cells will not meet future demand. Refocus research to find new electrodes based on common elements such as iron and silicon, urge Kostiantyn Turcheniuk and colleagues. | Continue reading
Manipulation at the atomic scale comes with a trade-off between simplicity and thermal stability. Here, Achal et al. demonstrate improved automated hydrogen lithography and repassivation, enabling error-corrected atomic writing of large-scale structures/memories that are stable a … | Continue reading
Thousands more people may die by their own hand as Earth’s climate warms. | Continue reading
The strategy could also be used to bolster the defences of Tasmanian devils and corals on the Great Barrier Reef. | Continue reading
Outdated DNA-sequencing machines need not die — researchers can repurpose them to drive next-generation biochemistry studies. | Continue reading
Mechanically flexible artificial synapses based on memristive transistors demonstrate different kinds of synaptic plasticity. The synapse is a fundamental component in neuromorphic computing (a brain-inspired computing approach that aims to provide more efficient computing compar … | Continue reading
A 1 °C increase in monthly average temperature is associated with higher suicide rates in the United States and Mexico. Combined with comparable analysis of depressive language in US Twitter updates, these results suggest a link between higher temperatures and mental well-being. | Continue reading
Heidi Ledford tours an exhibition about the trailblazing technique and the 6 million babies born using it — including the first, Louise Brown. | Continue reading
A meta-analysis of studies on chimpanzees and bonobos across Africa shows that their conspecific aggression is the normal and expected product of adaptive strategies to obtain resources or mates and has no connection with the impacts of human activities. | Continue reading
Craig Venter’s creation comes as CRISPR gene-editing methods provide alternative ways to tinker with life’s building blocks. | Continue reading
Scientists at the US Environmental Protection Agency hope for the best, but fear the worst. | Continue reading
With the end of Europe’s Planck mission, researchers are moving to smaller projects studying different aspects of the cosmic microwave background. | Continue reading