Animals equipped with special sensors collect data that could be used to sharpen climate models' projections of rising seas. | Continue reading
Electric cars are gaining ground fast but face fossil-fuel favouritism in the showroom. | Continue reading
Sweden is latest country to hold out on journal subscriptions, while negotiators share tactics to broker new deals with publishers. | Continue reading
Scientists scramble to analyze data from Kilauea, which shot ash 9 kilometres into the atmosphere. | Continue reading
International health organizations are in discussions with the Democratic Republic of Congo about how and whether to deploy treatments in addition to a vaccine. | Continue reading
Images from Landsat satellites and agricultural-survey programme are freely available to scientists — but for how long? | Continue reading
Encouraging trial results spur interest from researchers and drug giants. | Continue reading
High-energy experiments reveal the balanced pressure distribution behind the particle's stability. | Continue reading
Measurements of the quark pressure distribution in the proton reveal a strong repulsive pressure near the proton’s centre (stronger than the pressure in neutron stars) and a binding pressure at greater distances. | Continue reading
Previous studies suggest that individual differences in intelligence correlate with circuit complexity and dendritic arborization in the brain. Here the authors use NODDI, a diffusion MRI technique, to confirm that neurite density and arborization are inversely related to measure … | Continue reading
A designer compound stops rhinoviruses in their tracks. | Continue reading
Materials whose optical properties can be reconfigured are crucial for photonic applications such as optical memories. Phase-change materials offer such utility and here recent progress is reviewed. | Continue reading
As the United Nations prepares a historic treaty to protect the oceans, scientists highlight what’s needed for success. | Continue reading
Humans and other mammals are prodigious learners, partly because they also ‘learn how to learn’. Wang and colleagues present a new theory showing how learning to learn may arise from interactions between prefrontal cortex and the dopamine system. | Continue reading
Natural or artificially induced electrical activity changes can alter ion balance so as to briefly influence firing. An optogenetics study delineates one mechanism: Cl− shifts causing seconds-long excitability changes after silencing. | Continue reading
This Review Article examines the development of wearable sweat sensors, considering the challenges and opportunities for such technology in the context of personalized healthcare. | Continue reading
This Perspective highlights the existence of gaps between the computational complexity and energy efficiency required for the continued scaling of deep neural networks and the hardware capacity actually available with current CMOS technology scaling, in situations where edge infe … | Continue reading
Physicists believe that at the tiniest scales, space emerges from quanta. What might these building blocks look like? | Continue reading
Eric Topol extols a gripping account of the rise and fall of the US medical-testing company. | Continue reading
Grid-like representations emerge spontaneously within a neural network trained to self-localize, enabling the agent to take shortcuts to destinations using vector-based navigation. | Continue reading
Twenty years on, Dave Reay speaks out about the depression that almost sunk his PhD, and the lifelines that saved him. | Continue reading