Neutron and X-ray scattering studies combined with first-principles calculations suggest that the large, liquid-like ionic mobility in the canonical superionic crystal CuCrSe2 is due to anharmonic phonon dynamics. | Continue reading
Integrating an optical Kerr frequency comb source with an electronically excited laser pump produces a battery-powered comb generator that does not require external lasers, moveable optics or laboratory set-ups. | Continue reading
A biocompatible device built from naturally dissolving components and controlled by wireless technology enables programmable electrical stimulation of injured rodent peripheral nerves to accelerate regeneration and recovery. | Continue reading
The placement of nanomaterials at predefined locations is a key requirement for their integration in nanoelectronic devices. Here, the authors devise a method allowing placement of solution-based nanomaterials by using structured graphene layers as deposition sites with the aid o … | Continue reading
A protocol for analysing commercially available graphene. | Continue reading
The 21-cm absorption profile is detected in the sky-averaged radio spectrum, but is much stronger than predicted, suggesting that the primordial gas might have been cooler than predicted. | Continue reading
Miniature instruments could help the European Union determine whether nations are meeting pledges to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. | Continue reading
Researchers suggest tilting scatter plots by 45 degrees to make the viewer question assumptions about correlation. | Continue reading
Loss of the protein OTX2 drives reproductive-cell fate. | Continue reading
Draft proposal permits gene-editing tools for research into early human development. | Continue reading
For the first time, the World Health Organization will recognize traditional medicine in its influential global medical compendium. | Continue reading
The University of Pisa and the European Research Council say they are also opening investigations into Alessandro Strumia’s conduct. | Continue reading
Graphics processing units aren’t just of interest to gamers and cryptocurrency miners. Increasingly, they’re being used to turbocharge academic research, too. | Continue reading
Donna Strickland, Gérard Mourou and Arthur Ashkin share the prize for their work using beams of light to manipulate objects. | Continue reading
The object never gets closer to the Sun than 65 times the Earth–Sun distance. | Continue reading
Climate deterioration towards desertification in North Africa following the African Humid Period has previously been associated with the emergence of pastoralism. Here, using a climate-vegetation model, the authors show that pastoralism in fact likely slowed the deterioration of … | Continue reading
All sixteen qubits in an IBM Q cloud quantum computer can be fully entangled, a prerequisite for exploiting its quantum computational power. Entanglement is one of the resources that lead to quantum algorithms’ advantages over their classical counterparts. However, even when usin … | Continue reading
The prize-awarding academies are making changes to their secretive nomination processes to tackle bias, but some say the measures don’t go far enough. | Continue reading
The immune system can be a powerful weapon against cancer — but researchers are still grappling with how to control it. | Continue reading
James Allison is enlisting the body’s own defenses to fight tumours. | Continue reading
Quantum mechanics is expected to provide a consistent description of reality, even when recursively describing systems contained in each other. Here, the authors develop a variant of Wigner’s friend Gedankenexperiment where each of the current interpretations of QM fails in givin … | Continue reading
Dull talks at conferences can feel interminable. | Continue reading
Investigation turns up evidence of misconduct in publications from troubled French laboratory. | Continue reading
With six months to go, uncertainty posed by the decision to leave the European Union is taking its toll. | Continue reading
A researcher explains how — and why — he spent a whole summer harvesting information from the platform, which is notoriously hard to mine. | Continue reading
Confusion about mesenchymal stem cells is making it easier for people to sell unproven treatments, warn Douglas Sipp, Pamela G. Robey and Leigh Turner. | Continue reading
Neural networks trained on data from about 130,000 aftershocks from around 100 large earthquakes improve predictions of the spatial distribution of aftershocks and suggest physical quantities that may control earthquake triggering. | Continue reading
In a mouse model of tau-dependent neurodegenerative disease, the clearance of senescent glial cells prevents the degeneration of cortical and hippocampal neurons and preserves cognitive function. | Continue reading
Seven researchers and campaigners tell Nature how Britain’s break-up with the EU is affecting research | Continue reading
Complete population collapse of malaria vector Anopheles gambiae in cages is achieved using a gene drive that targets doublesex. | Continue reading
In a human subject with chronic paraplegia, a combination of epidural electrical stimulation and long-term rehabilitative training have culminated in the first report of unassisted, voluntary independent stepping in a paralyzed individual. | Continue reading
Molluscs’ reaction to popular party drug echoes humans’ response. | Continue reading
Exclusive: Document shows that the astronomer toned down the claims that triggered science history’s most infamous battle — then lied about his edits. | Continue reading
In a multi-‘cat’ experiment, the textbook interpretation of quantum theory seems to lead to contradictory pictures of reality, physicists claim. | Continue reading
Fossils of ancient sea creatures answer a long-standing question about how animals became bigger and more complex. | Continue reading
Researchers from these continents are three to four times more likely to experience visa problems when travelling for work than are Europeans and Americans. | Continue reading
How voltage readings from individual neurons could power the next revolution in neuroscience. | Continue reading
Bones and artefacts suggest that kids laboured at skilled tasks thousands of years ago. | Continue reading