The relativistic jets associated with the black-hole X-ray binary system V404 Cygni change their orientation on time scales of minutes to hours, implying that the direction of the jets is being affected by the dynamics of the surrounding accretion flow that powers them. | Continue reading
The life-cycle GHG emissions from plastics are expected to increase. Here, it is shown that an aggressive strategy of decarbonizing energy infrastructure, improving recycling, adopting bio-based plastics and reducing demand is required to keep emissions below 2015 levels. | Continue reading
Some microbes might use nanotubes to obtain nutrients from host cells. | Continue reading
Dorothy Bishop describes how threats to reproducibility, recognized but unaddressed for decades, might finally be brought under control. | Continue reading
As holiday feasts begin, Laura Lawson surveys the fruitful history of urban farming. | Continue reading
Survey reveals virus diversity hotspots in the Arctic Ocean, as well as the surface waters of temperate and tropical seas. | Continue reading
LIGO and Virgo observatories have spotted ripples from what could be the first-ever detection of this long-sought event. | Continue reading
Agreement with Norwegian consortium allows researchers to make the vast majority of their work free to read on publication in Elsevier journals. | Continue reading
Two-neutrino double electron capture seen in xenon-124 nuclei. | Continue reading
From consciousness to cryonics, Nature’s news team answers reader questions about a remarkable piece of research. | Continue reading
Understanding the behaviour of the machines powered by artificial intelligence that increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic and political interactions is essential to our ability to control the actions of these intelligent machines, reap their benefits and minimize&nb … | Continue reading
Coordination-induced bond weakening enables nitrogen fixation. | Continue reading
Two-neutrino double electron capture is observed experimentally in 124Xe with the XENON1T detector, yielding a half-life of 1.8 × 1022 years. | Continue reading
Technology could one day be used to provide a voice for people who can’t talk. | Continue reading
A neural decoder uses kinematic and sound representations encoded in human cortical activity to synthesize audible sentences, which are readily identified and transcribed by listeners. | Continue reading
Dorothy Bishop describes how threats to reproducibility, recognized but unaddressed for decades, might finally be brought under control. | Continue reading
A study examines once taboo questions about the impacts of gender transition. | Continue reading
Tilli Tansey extols a history of California’s chaotic early-twentieth-century epidemic. | Continue reading
My journey from civil engineer to sociologist and sustainability researcher gave me the ideal mix of skills for working in artificial intelligence, says Ehsan Nabavi. | Continue reading
NASA′s InSight lander hears ripples of seismic energy rippling through Mars. | Continue reading
Implantable medical electronic devices are limited by battery lifetime and inflexibility, but self-powered devices can harvest biomechanical energy. Here the authors demonstrate cardiac pacing and correction of sinus arrhythmia with a symbiotic cardiac pacemaker, which is an impl … | Continue reading
Skyscrapers in cities rob people of sunlight and put human health, well-being and sustainability at risk, warn Karolina M. Zielinska-Dabkowska and Kyra Xavia. | Continue reading
But the practical challenges of breeding and maintaining unconventional lab animals persist. | Continue reading
Opportunities for moving between academia and business are expanding for scientists as companies step up recruitment. | Continue reading
Updated regulations allow scientists to use some genome-editing techniques in plants and animals without government approval. | Continue reading
A deterministic violation of the Bell inequality is reported between two superconducting circuits, providing a necessary test for establishing strong enough quantum entanglement to achieve secure quantum communications. | Continue reading
Preparing rice in a coffee machine can halve levels of the naturally occurring substance. | Continue reading
The impacts of technological development on social sphere lack strong empirical foundation. Here the authors presented quantitative analysis of the phenomenon of social acceleration across a range of digital datasets and found that interest appears in bursts that dissipate on dec … | Continue reading
Quantum devices should allow simulating stochastic processes using less memory than classical counterparts, but only if quantum coherence is maintained through multiple steps. Here, the authors demonstrate a coherence-preserving three-step stochastic simulation using photons. | Continue reading
Project identifies reams of imperceptible tremors that can help to image fault lines in unprecedented detail. | Continue reading
Studies of the planetary nebula NGC 7027, using an upgraded spectrometer onboard a high-altitude observatory, have identified the rotational ground-state transition of the helium hydride ion—the first molecule to form after the Big Bang and an essential precursor to molecula … | Continue reading
A popular hypothesis suggests that the mammalian eye developed in the shadow of the dinosaurs. | Continue reading
Observation of an exotic polarization pattern. | Continue reading
Researchers need guidance on animal use and the many issues opened up by a new study on whole-brain restoration, argue Nita A. Farahany, Henry T. Greely and Charles M. Giattino. | Continue reading
A specialized technology can restore and preserve microcirculation and cellular functions hours post-mortem in an isolated pig brain. | Continue reading
Researchers find evidence of rising plastic pollution in an accidental source: log books for plankton-monitoring instruments. | Continue reading
Revival of disembodied organs raises slew of ethical and legal questions about the nature of death and consciousness. | Continue reading
Researchers from under-represented groups are making genomics more inclusive by working with communities that have been overlooked or abused. | Continue reading
A networked colour coordination game, with humans interacting with autonomous software bots, shows that bots acting with small levels of random noise and being placed centrally in the network improves not only human–bot interactions but also human–human interactions at distant no … | Continue reading
IndiaRxiv is the latest of several preprint servers set up to host research from a particular region. | Continue reading
A riposte to the view that mathematics has led physics astray beguiles Jon Butterworth. | Continue reading
An opportunity to do a visiting fellowship in New Zealand meant Thomas Bennett had to manage his UK research group from afar — and so change his leadership approach. | Continue reading
Researchers are narrowing down their measurements of how long the subatomic particle survives on its own. | Continue reading
Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft did not find the gas in red planet’s atmosphere during its first months of operation. | Continue reading
Investigation found that Science and Nature papers contained data falsified by one author. | Continue reading